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A telecollaberative project (sometimes referred to as an “interactive project”) is an avenue for your students to collect data, share it in a large global database, and use the entire collection of information to order and analyze patterns and trends to make predictions.
A telecollaberative project literally opens up the walls of your classroom and allows your students to become learners with the rest of the world’s six billion inhabitants.
This education creates a learning environment that cannot be replicated without the technology.
Setting up a telecollaberative project is quite a bit of work, but well worth it. It is best advised to start implementing telecollaberative projects, however, by participating in one that is already “up and running.”
Check out a few of my favorites, then wander around some of the other projects!
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/eyes01/
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/shipproj/
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Down the Drain: How much water do YOU use?
Do you know how much water you use everyday? Do you
think people in other parts of the world use more or less water than you?
Join this project and find out!
Recommended for Grades 4-8
Mission to Eros: Rendezvous with an Asteroid
This CIESE collaborative project which asks students to determine what affects the appearance of impact craters and their ejecta. The culmination of the project is the rendezvous of a NASA "Project Near" spacecraft, with the asteroid EROS 433.
Human Genetics: A Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait--Do You Have It?
Let's ask a lot of people all over the world which traits they have. Then we can analyze the collected data to see if the dominant trait occurs more frequently than the recessive trait. (Recommended for grades 6-12)
The Global Water Sampling Project
Join us in this collaborative project and compare the water quality of your local river, stream, lake or pond with other fresh water sources around the world. (Recommended for Grades 6-12)
The Global Sun/Temperature Project
Join schools from around the world as they try to figure out how proximity to the equator affects average daily temperature and hours of sunlight. (Recommended for Grades 5-8 but all levels may participate)
Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments
This Internet-based collaborative project will allow your students to share information about the plants, animals and non-living objects found in their schoolyard environment with other students from around the country and the world. (Recommended Grade Levels 1-6 but all are invited to participate)
Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project
Ever Wonder What Causes a Pot of Water to Boil? If you have, this project's for you! (Recommended for Grades 6-12)
The Noon Day Project: Measuring the Circumference of the Earth
This activity is an opportunity for students to see how mathematics and science work together in explaining a real world phenomenon.
The purpose of this project is to get students involved in measuring the pH of precipitation and to use this as a means of researching, discussing, and analyzing the complex issues of acidified precipitation and atmospheric pollution, especially in New England."
Travel with explorers around the world as they discover our globe! They've even developed off-line material to help teachers follow their tours.
Adventure Online's Pointers to Other Projects
Here are some great links to other online projects. Some of the projects require a subscription fee and others are free. This list contains many of the "headline" projects promoted in the educational circles. Pointers to the JASON project, Globalearn's Trans-Asia expedition, Maya Adventure, and many more are found on this webpage.
This is sponsored by the US Department of Energy for grades 9-12. This project is called the "Global Nuclear Visions Project." The high school teams will prepare and present a final position paper of their conclusions and recommendations to a panel of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, thus giving them a say in present and future decisions regarding the future of all things nuclear.
There is a weekly Cyberspace Treasure Hunt sponsored by
Centennial Regional High School
in Quebec,
This site has developed curriculum that will integrate the Internet with your classroom. See what current projects are being hosted by this site!
This is a multiage first and second grade classroom taking a virtual canoe trip around the Great Lakes. Join them on their trip and they'll 'll keep you updated as to what they are doing and where they are, so check back often. They would love to hear from everyone, but especially from those people that live along the Great Lakes.
Students in grade 4-12 are invited to join this project. As a result of participating in this project, students will gain an appreciation for how the United Nations functions as they interact on an issue of global significance. A wide variety of Social Studies, Science and Math teaching objectives will be supported in the progress of this interactive simulation. The topic of discussion is "The Importance of Trees to Our Planet."
Register your class with any one of the many on-line environmental projects. Their purpose "is to enhance environmental science education in the K-12 community."
Open to the K-12 grade community, this project begins September 1997 and runs through December 1997. Students will research their family history and develop writing skills with this project.
Each participating class completes a questionnaire about their own location, including information about latitude, typical weather, land formations, nearest river, time zone, points of interest, for whom/what famous, direction from capital, and population. This data is scrambled and returned to participants as puzzles for the classes to solve.
Here's a hotlist of Internet projects that you can join. Another resource on this website is a list of mentors who are available to help you with the integration and application of technological resources into the school curriculum.
Discover Asia! That is what this expedition is all about. Follow Marco
Polo's route from
This is the first official inaugural presidential website and it is hosted by PBS OnLine. This is an interactive website, which has been developed and will offer a collection of suggested lesson plans to enable middle school and high school teachers to work with students on line to learn about citizenship, democracy and the history of American inaugurations.
The Internet Schoolhouse Projects
At this site, you'll find a list of on-going projects that are sponsored by the award winning site, "The Internet Schoolhouse." If you are looking for a project, this site will have one that fits you!
NASA has begun a three-year pilot program to bring space exploration into classrooms around the nation. KidSat is planned and operated by students who want to explore Earth from space. Through the Internet, students are involved in planning observations and using images from Shuttle-based cameras to study Earth's dynamic, fragile environment. The KidSat Project provides students around the nation the necessary tools to study Earth using remote-sensing instruments, just as astronauts and scientists do during Space Shuttle missions.
Live From Antarctica 2 is targeted at middle school grades but educators find these projects easily adaptable to elementary and high school and it is supported in part by the National Science Foundation. There is a clickable map for students, a teacher's guide, an image gallery, and soon there will be an interactive game to test student's knowledge on Antartica.
NASA's Online Interactive Projects
NASA has designed projects to connect K-12 classrooms with ongoing and exciting real research. Find out what their current projects are, what upcoming projects will be coming, or search their archive of past projects.
Students in 8-12th grade are invited to participate in this project. Each participating class measures the length of the sun's shadow at local noon on a specified day, and then we share the results via email. From this data we can calculate the circumference of the earth!
Your classroom is wired for the Internet....NOW WHAT?!?! Here you'll find live, original programming materials --- the "hook" -- for the interdisciplinary teaching experience you want to have! They have five new offerings for winter/spring. To participate in these projects, subscribers need to pay a fee which helps with the cost of moderation, research and materials development without depending on advertisers and sponsors.
This is a telecommunications project open to K-12 students globally! Read poetry submitted by students from around the world or post your own poetry on this website.
This project is being offered to classes all over the world via the internet...be prepared to receive and send hundreds of cards! It is appropriate for all ages and will run in two sessions: August - December, and January - May. Each session will require separate registration. In this simple project, your class commits to exchanging picture postcards (purchased or computer/handmade) with all other participating classes.
Hosted by Houghton-Mifflin's educational website, they've posted webprojects offered for the K-12 students. They've broken their list of on-going projects into reading, math, science, and social studies.
Sponsored by the L'Ouverture Magnet School at Wichita, Kansas, this award winning site posts a new question every week. E-mail your answer to them and you may become the winner!
The Read In is a day long reading project for grades kindergarten through high school that is an effort to incorporate and integrate the Language Arts Curriculum and telecommunications into a worthwhile educational collaboration among peers throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad.
Maintained by Houghton-Mifflin's educational website, this page offers links to currently ongoing web projects.
Science Fiction Writing Project
For students in the 6-9th grade, you can help other students write a science fiction story, using real science facts. Their students will write the story, your student(s) can be co-authors, editors, or technical advisors. It's a great way for students to get to know each other and work together.
Maintained by Houghton-Mifflin's Educational site, this page offers links to current online Internet projects with a social studies theme.
Visit the Space Day site and take an electronic field trip into outer space. You will find 101 things to do during Space Day, you can send a friend an outerspace postcard, find teacher tips, and more activities can be found here.
TENAN is an acronym for The Endangered Animals of the World. Join this collaborative project and submit a report about the endangered animals in your region of the world.
ThinkQuest is an annual contest that challenges students, ages 12 to 18, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool. Awards for students will be in the form of scholarships to a college or university. Awards for coaches and schools will be paid by check. No team may win more than one award.
Designed for students in the fourth through the sixth grade, this contest challenges these students to develop a collaborative, interactive project using the Internet.
Transport your students back in time by joining an interactive journey aboard the tall ship Alvei, currently circumnavigating the globe. Tidal Passages is being led by a middle school science teacher and will be exploring the remote islands of the South Pacific beginning September 1997 - January 1998.
The United Nations CyberSchoolBus Special Projects
This is an educational project launched by UN Publications. Imagine the United Nations as a vast land of resources you can travel through. Coming in February 1997, a whole week of fun and information on a specific country will be held here. Don't miss the live chat with the Ambassador to the United Nations. Other "world related" projects are sponsored here. Check this site out for current projects!
"Just as U.S. Highway Route 66 was a catalyst for Americana, we see the World Wide Web as a catalyst that will integrate the Internet into K12 school curricula. The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools." You can find a worldwide listing of schools that have registered homepages at this website.
Where in the World is Cynthia San Francisco?
Using Internet based resources, students are challenged to find the location of Cynthia San Francisco. Clues that wiil lead students to her location come from real-time weather data, such as satellite images, weather stations and current weather maps.
Roger Williams, a former United States Marine Corps combat
pilot and retired airline pilot, is in the midst of realizing a long-standing
dream of driving around the world. He has driven his truck, Bubba, down to
South America two years ago, then shipped his truck to
Since 1984, the annual running of the Yukon Quest 1000 mile (1600 km) International Sled Dog Race has captured the attention of race enthusiasts and dog lovers from Canada, the United States and Europe. This trail follows the old Gold Rush routes of the late 1800's. This website is designed for student information and interaction.
The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring. Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the Hemisphere. In addition, students are linked with scientists who provide their expertise directly to the classroom. Several migrations are tracked by satellite telemetry, providing live coverage of individual animals as they migrate. As the spring season sweeps across the Hemisphere, students note changes in daylight, temperatures, & all living things as the food chain comes back to life.
Do your students hate to write descriptive essays? Perhaps
having a real purpose and audience would help. Ask your students to choose
a place near your community to describe to a global audience. Since our environment
shapes our experiences, it becomes an important part of who we are. For example,
we live in Salisbury, Maryland,
Bring them Out to Bring them In (BOBI)
In this project, students from
The objective of the "Multi-Cultural Recipe Book" is to provide students with an opportunity to learn about and experience differences and similarities of cultures, traditions, and foods (recipes) within and across a variety of cultures. The project will focus on students utilizing the Internet to gather, learn, and communicate information about recipes, descriptions of traditions and customs, and student created graphics of a variety of cultures from around the world.
Monthly math projects
Because it is made up of different activities to be introduced one per month, you can participate in all or part of the project, whichever best fits your needs. Each month, we will introduce a new activity. For open-ended activities, you can begin to send information to the KIDPROJ list any time after the announced start date and up until the end of June.