The Bancroft Arnesen Expedition: Two Teachers Take to the Ice to Expand Classroom Walls
Braving wind and ice, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen attempt to become the first women to cross Antarctica. As educators, they realize that the expedition could serve as an inspiration to children. As they struggle to attain their lifelong goal, they share their experiences with kids through the Internet. Included: A teacher and her students share their reactions to this ultimate virtual field trip! (Sept. 2000 - Feb. 2001)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Cincinnati Students Board the Underground Railroad
"This educational partnership is the only project in the nation in which high school students from an inner city school and a private school are assisted by faculty from a university, a social service agency, a reflective museum, and a corporation to synthesize and publish [a Web site about] Cincinnati's vital role in the Underground Railroad," said Dennis Walsh, the project coordinator. The Web site is a model for many cities and towns across the nation. Included: Information about how others can join the effort!
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
The Diversity Bus: On the Road to Understanding
The Town-to-Town C.A.R.E.-A-VAN is on the road to a new world -- a world in which people celebrate diversity. On a 13-month journey, this transformed school bus will visit 25 schools in 22 states. You and your students are invited along for the ride! Included: How you and your students can participate!
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
Search for Columbus
School children worldwide will explore the sunken wrecks of Columbus's fleet via the Internet. The "Search for Columbus(TM)" is an online educational project that invites classrooms to participate with archaeologists as they explore the remains of Columbus's ships from his second voyage.
(4/24-6/1 -- Annual Event)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Laws of Life
Students write short essays about their values, or "Laws" in life. They post these essays to an online newsgroup, where they can read and react to the essays of others. (11/31/99-5/31/00)
GRADE LEVEL: All
Building a Working Community in the Classroom: One Teacher's Experience
Elementary teacher Toni Wing captured her students' interest by making them citizen-leaders of a city called Tinseltown. As business people, bankers, and employees, the students kept checkbooks and inventory and found out about the real world. See how the activity made learning across the curriculum relevant for students! Included: Ideas for creating a community in your classroom!
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Flat Students Go Down on the Farm!
Four or five years ago, I couldn't understand why anyone would want [a computer] cluttering their classroom… says teacher Becky Ross. But Ross is a convert now! The "Flat Stanley" Internet project, based on the children's book of the same name by Jeff Brown, has spawned a new activity that has her "flat students" visiting farms all over the world!
GRADE LEVEL: 3-8
Email Classroom Exchange
Email Classroom Exchange (ECE) allows students throughout the world to connect and exchange information with one another via email and online conferencing.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
GlobaLearn™
This is the Web site for GlobaLearn, a non-profit company sponsoring live expeditions all over the world. The company maintains this Web site so students can interact with the expedition teams.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Adventure Online
This site contains valuable education tools in the area of "adventure learning".
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
This site contains a valuable gopher Archives of emailing lists about collaborative projects.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
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ANTHROPOLOGY & CULTURES PROJECTS
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Colonial Kids: A Celebration of Life in the 1700's
Fourth and fifth graders from Salford Hills Elementary School in Pennsylvania created this site to showcase different aspects of life as a child in colonial America. The site's creators invite other schools to contribute more stories from the colonial days.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-8
GlobaLearn™
This is the Web site for GlobaLearn, a non-profit company sponsoring live expeditions all over the world. The company maintains this Web site so students can interact with the expedition teams.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Adventure Online
This site contains valuable education tools in the area of "adventure learning".
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Decisions, Decisions Online
Bring contemporary issues alive in your classroom with the new Internet version of the award-winning Decisions, Decisions series. Decisions, Decisions Online will stimulate discussions that start inside your classroom and continue outside of it, as students role-play legislators faced with critical situations.
GRADE LEVEL: 5-10
Highwired National Edition
Highwired National Edition is a news site that showcases the writing of high-school journalists nationwide and around the world. The site also offers space for schools to publish school newspapers on-line and create special Web sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and individual classrooms to publish student writing on the Web!
GRADE LEVEL: 7-12
New York Times Learning Network
The New York Times Learning Network provides an educational service for grade 6-12 teachers, students, and parents. The site has a set of daily lesson plans that help to integrate daily news articles into the classroom curriculum, as well as quizzes, links, features, and an On This Day... section.
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
Little Planet Times
The Little Planet Times is a newspaper written by and for kids.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Stock Market Games Bring Math to Life
Are your students in the market for meaningful math? Check out these on-line stock market simulations! Included: A fourth-grade teacher and her students talk about a fun and educational on-line stock market game!
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Good News Bears Stock Market Project
This is an online project that was based on an interactive stock market competition between classmates that used real-time data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Laws of Life
Students write short essays about their values, or "Laws" in life. They post these essays to an online newsgroup, where they can read and react to the essays of others. (11/31/99-5/31/00)
GRADE LEVEL: All
Decisions, Decisions Online
Bring contemporary issues alive in your classroom with the new Internet version of the award-winning Decisions, Decisions series. Decisions, Decisions Online will stimulate discussions that start inside your classroom and continue outside of it, as students role-play legislators faced with critical situations.
GRADE LEVEL: 5-10
Mars Millenium Project
The Mars Millenium Project, an official White House Millenium Council Youth Initiative, challenges students across the United States to design an ideal community for the planet Mars that incorporates the best aspects of their own local communities. The project begins in the fall of 1999, but materials to prepare for it should be available this month.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
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GEOGRAPHY & AREA STUDIES PROJECTS
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Down the Drain
Do you know how much water you use every day? Would you be surprised to learn that the average American uses between 80-100 gallons of water per day? Do you think people in other parts of the world use more or less water than Americans? Well, this collaborative project will help you find the answers to these questions.
GRADE LEVEL: 4-8
G.A.S.P. (Great Adventure to Scenic Places)
This content-rich curriculum resource takes students on a yearlong bicycle journey to every national park in the contiguous United States. (04/01/00)
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Glacier
Have you ever wanted to be involved in a scientific field study? Do you like cold weather? Well, you may want to participate in the Glacier project. Designed to promote awareness of Antarctic and Arctic environmental science in K-12 classrooms, Glacier provides first-class online resources. It also sponsors the Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) program that sends lucky teachers into the field to study the remote environments and report back to their students and colleagues.
GRADE LEVEL: 5-12, Teachers
Following Fall: A Free On-Line Project Is Getting Noticed!
Lots of teachers this year are looking forward to the changes that fall brings. So are their students. Those students and teachers will be charting seasonal changes in their schoolyards and comparing them with changes taking place in schoolyards all around the world. Anybody can join in the fall fun --- which will polish science, math, and language skills too. Included: Comments from teachers who "followed fall" last year.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
NetWorld Game
The NetWorld Game is an internet global simulation game where players take charge of major geographic regions, learn how to protect it’s interests while working together with other leaders to help move the world into the twenty-first century!
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
CuriousKids.com
CuriousKids.com is put together by a bunch of--what else?--curious kids. The most curious of those "kids" is a family of seven (the two biggest kids are the parents) who are sharing their long-dreamed-of world tour with all who would like to accompany them! Individuals and classrooms from all over can participate in this remarkable odyssey to faraway places.
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Journey Into Spring: An Internet Project for Everyone!
Is it spring yet? Students and teachers participating in Journey North 1999 know the answer to that question. And this week, Education World reveals how you can discover it too. Six additional Internet-based spring projects are also included.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Track the Change of Seasons -- On the Internet!
Signs of Autumn/Signs of Spring, a K-6 global Internet project, offers teachers and students a springboard for learning about the changing seasons around the world.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Track the Change of Seasons -- On the Internet!
Signs of Autumn/Signs of Spring, a K-6 global Internet project, offers teachers and students a springboard for learning about the changing seasons around the world.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
North American Quilt
A collaborative project for grades 4-12 that allows users to research weekly geography questions and contribute their findings to a "quilt of information" on the Web.
GRADE LEVEL: 4-12
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POLITICAL SCIENCE & CITIZENSHIP PROJECTS
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Decisions, Decisions Online
Bring contemporary issues alive in your classroom with the new Internet version of the award-winning Decisions, Decisions series. Decisions, Decisions Online will stimulate discussions that start inside your classroom and continue outside of it, as students role-play legislators faced with critical situations.
GRADE LEVEL: 5-10
NetWorld Game
The NetWorld Game is an internet global simulation game where players take charge of major geographic regions, learn how to protect it’s interests while working together with other leaders to help move the world into the twenty-first century!
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
Kids International Peace Museum
The Kids' International Peace Museum displays "world peace" themed artwork and poetry created by children from around the world.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Internet Headquarters for Student Governments
The Internet Headquarters for Student Governments was set up so student governments around the world can communicate and interact.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
Senior Pals: Bridging the Generation Gap with Technology
An emotional meeting of senior citizens and their fourth-grade e-pals was the culminating event of a project initiated by teacher Jim Flack at North Elementary School in Lancaster, Ohio. Included: Comments from the kids and senior citizens!
GRADE LEVEL: 3-6
Canadian School Weaves Web of Peace
Students at St. Elizabeth School in Ottawa, Ontario, are spinning the thoughts and artwork of children from around the world into a Web of Peace. The school hopes to receive 2001 submissions to its Web site by January 30, 2001. INCLUDED: Principles of peace *plus* student work samples.
GRADE LEVEL: Pre-K-12
Paper Clip Drive Helps Students Learn About Holocaust
Two Tennessee middle school teachers have created a unique project to teach about the enormity of the Holocaust. The students could use your help!
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
Thousand Cranes Peace Network
This is the Web site supporting a project designed to deliver 1 million folded paper cranes to the Children’s Monument in the Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Kids International Peace Museum
The Kids' International Peace Museum displays "world peace" themed artwork and poetry created by children from around the world.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
