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Field Trips Adventure Learning Foundation: Projects and activities for students, and resources and collaborations for teachers to accompany online Expeditions. Jason Project ($fee$): JASON Foundation for Education sponsors a new scientific expedition each year with original curriculum developed for grades 4-8, with live, interactive broadcast for students and expeditioners. Reach the World: Set sail in Fall, 2001, aboard the sailboat Makulu II as they begin their second world tour.Ê The crew of Makulu II will systematically gather information about world cultures en route and transmit the information gathered to its website. Curriculum materials are developed in conjunction with several educational institutions, including Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies. sitesALIVE ($fee$): Semester-long virtual student learning expeditions around the globe include a diverse assortment of subject areas. Top Language Arts ESL Discussion Center: English-as-a-Second-Language online discussion boards for teachers and students on a variety of topics. By Dave Sperling Email newsletter project: Year-long email exchange of newsletters on designated topics for elementary/middle school students. By Mary Kreul. Global Novel: Grades 9-12. Seven classes from around the world collaborate to write a progressive novel, with each successive class adding a chapter until the novel is completed. Staggered sessions are scheduled throughout the year. From Beaumont Publishing. Meeting Point: International student web magazine, continuing through December, 2001. Monster Exchange: Classrooms are paired to exchange student descriptions of their own monster drawing. The recipient attempts to recreate the drawing based on the description. Midlink Magazine: Publishing forum for writings and art by students ages 10-15 years. Wide assortment of new writing projects announced monthly. Poetry Post: Features poems submitted by students from around the world. Students may create and submit poems that describe any aspect of their world. From Grahamwood Elementary 5th and 6th grade CLUE. Playwriting-in-the-Round: Classes collaborate to write (4) four-act plays. Top Math and Science The Biology Place ($fee$): interactive projects and lessons ranging from global warming to bacteria. Annual membership fee; from Peregrine Publishers . The Bird Source: Seasonal and on-going ornithological data collection projects including the Great Backyard Bird Count, the Christmas Bird Count, and Project Feeder Watcher. Sponsored by the Audobon Society and Cornell University. CLEO: A library of math and science projects, including current and completed projects with published results. Free but requires registration. CSIE Online Earth science projects including curriculum standards addressed. From Stevens Institute of Technology. EduPlace Data Place from Houghton Mifflin Co. A variety of graphing and analysis projects drawing from a database of student input. Discovery Channel School: Expert conversations with a new guest each month via message board postings for teachers and students. The GLOBE Program ($fee$): students make and submit environmental observations via the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education and post student data sets daily on the WWW. Registration and teacher workshop training required to join. Journey North: an ongoing global study of wildlife migration. From Annenberg/CPB Math and Science project. One Sky, Many Voices ($fee$): real-time, inquiry-based weather curriculum, collaborating with middle school classrooms across North America. Curriculum and support materials available on CD for purchase. NASA's Learning Technology Project comprehensive site covering NASA's educational resources, including Classrooms of the Future, with projects such as Astronomy Village, BioBLAST, Exploring the Environment and Space Station; NASA's Distance Learning Programs which use a videoconferncing format; NASA Quest, for elementary and middle school students; and NASA's Sites for Kids. Operation RubyThroat - The Hummingbird Project: Participants in grades K-12 in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America collaborate study behavior and distribution of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris). An outreach initiative of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History. Salmon In the Classroom: Washington State Fish and WildLife Dept. sponsored. Students receive 500 eggs from a designated hatchery and care for "their" salmon while learning about life histories and habitat requirements. By becoming salmon stewards, these students are more aware of local waterways and more conscious of and knowledgeable about water quality issues. Students release the salmon as fry after studying the streams and creeks into which the fish will be released. Signs of Autumn, Signs of Spring: Students in grades k-6 share seasonal observations and illustrations for four consecutive weeks. Repeats in October and March. Save the Beaches: Goals include having students collaborate to discover ways to take responsibility for their environment and realize global interdependencies necessary to keep our planet healthy. Students visit local beaches, do a beech sweep, analyze and categorize the litter. They then share the data with the participating schools. Through graphs and discussions they reach conclusions based on what was found. SchoolWorld Zoo: Explore the wild kingdom with an array of interactive projects on animals and plants including the SchoolWorld Endangered Species student reports, Ask An Expert, where via email plant and animal experts answer student question, The SchoolWorld Adoption Center, in conjunction with international zoos, where students can adopt and name their animal and will be kept informed as to the animals progress through regular reports from the zoo. and Letters From Around The World, where interested people contribute to the project's information database. S'COOL - Students' Cloud Observations On-Line : K-12 classes conduct cloud observations and report conditions to NASA, at the time that a NASA Earth-observing satellite passes over your location. On-line database of student and satellite observations. On-going project. Space Explorers: Educational projects that combines technology along with space exploration. MarsLink project in the planning stage. Past projects have included collaboration with NASA (MoonLink) and Johns Hopkins University (NearLink). Testbed for Telecollaboration: science projects including EnergyNet, Global Lab, Classroom FeederWatch Project, CyberMarch. World Weather Watch: Students share weather data weekly. Includes discussion board, and galleries for related writing and graphics. Social Studies/History America Dreams: Comprehensive project involving community members, state and national officials in a telecollborative learning project. Includes "The American Dream" WebQuest, "America - Through our Eyes" student narratives of local family and community history, and Celebrate America, students-hosted community festivals to share their stories and dreams, with IRC and CU-SeeMe online conferencing. Common Link: Global citizenship project with discussion forms, email debates, e-cards, polls. Do Something: A national, school-based program encouraging the development of young leaders through community-based involvement. Standards-based training and support are offerred. Kids Peace Museum: contribute to this Indian Hill School project to promote and display ideas and symbols. Postcard Geography: semi-annual project for classes who want more than an e-mail message, join at any time. Telecollaboration: Internation learning circles are formed to create their own project. Westward Ho!: Share a simulated wagon train journey across Old West frontier to Oregon through daily challenges and live conferencing. Thematic I Have a Dream: Students are challenged to realize their dreams about their future and a better world by creating a focused Internet based project in collaboration with peers in other countries. The six-phased program is for students to secondary level. Survival In Your Environment Project: Students in grades 6-9 decide what items to include in a backpack for living outside in their area. Lists are shared on the Internet. By Julie Pearl. The Viper Club: Classes track and tabulate average time spent reading at home monthly (Nov.-Mar.). Data is shared on project web site. Top |
