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Resources
Tested online projects: 2004-2005
A compilation of resources from eMINTS for educators. Find regular
additions to this listing of online projects used by eMINTS teachers or recommended
by eMINTS staff members below.
ImagiNations
Project Summary: The SMARTer Kids™ Foundation
of Canada is now accepting applications for the 2005-2006 round of ImagiNations,
an international collaborative learning program for elementary and primary
school children. Selected schools receive a box containing a teddy bear, journal
and photo album for about one month. During this time, students are encouraged
to take the teddy bear home and document its adventures in the journal. Teachers
and students are also expected to add memorabilia to the box such as maps,
postcards, photographs and souvenirs. The teddy bear is then sent to the next
school, where its accompanying journal and memorabilia are shared with a new
class. In the 2005-2006 school year, at least 30 teddy bears will visit approximately
200 schools.
Project URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/partners/showrelease.cfm?ReleaseID=654
Earth Day Grocery Project
Project Begin & End Dates: Now to April 23, 2005
(Earth Day)
Project Summary: The procedure:
- a school/group borrows paper bags from
a local grocery store
- students decorate those bags with beautiful environmental
art and environmental awareness messages, and then return the bags to
the store
- the store distributes those bags (full of groceries) to
amazed shoppers on Earth Day
- the school sends in a report to the project
web site, documenting its participation
You do not need to register. It doesn't
cost anything. All that's needed is someone to organize the project at
your school (other groups can participate, too!). Stop by the website to find
out more. You'll find complete directions, an FAQ, screensavers, PowerPoint
presentations, desktop wallpaper and much more! In its twelve years on the
Internet, this project has put several million pieces of inspirational art,
carefully created on grocery bags by children who cared about their Earth,
in the arms and homes of people around the world. In the spirit of environmental
awareness, and hoping to make a difference in that world, the message
will be sent out once again in 2005. I hope you and your school will be a
part of it.
Project URL: http://www.earthdaybags.org
Project Contact Information: Mark Ahlness
International Schools Cyberfair Project
Project Begin & End Dates: Project due by March 21, 2005
Project Summary:In partnership with the World Future Society, the theme for CyberFair 2005 is "Prepare and Unite!" Students are encouraged to prepare for the future - by thinking about their own future plans, the conditions that will affect the future of their community, and issues of global importance. Projects that best illustrate "future thinking" will be invited to the World Future Society international conference in Chicago, July 2005. Now in its tenth year, CyberFair is the largest educational event of its kind ever held on the Internet. This program brings together more than one million students across 100 countries and has affiliate projects throughout the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Poland and Mexico.
Registration Instructions: Register between Oct. 8, 2004 and Feb. 28, 2005. A complete timeline is available on the website. Upload the project by March 21, 2005.
Age Range: 5-19 years
Project URL: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/cf/
Project Contact Information: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/GSH/cf/contact.cfm
Doors to Diplomacy
Project Begin & End Dates: Projects due March 20, 2005
Project Summary: Doors to Diplomacy is a collaborative project, where small teams are formed consisting of two to four student members and up to two adult "coaches." Research can be conducted both online and offline, and then the findings are assembled to produce an educational Web project. Students also are encouraged to become spokespersons for their projects. Prizes include $2,000 scholarship for each student team member, plus a trip to Washington D.C.-sponsored in part by the U.S. State Department. Focus on global issues including world leadership, environment, economics, science, culture.
Registration Instructions: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/gsh/doors/_cfm/timeline.cfm
Age Range: Middle school-High school
Project URL: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/gsh/doors/aglance.html
Project Contact Information:
http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/gsh/doors/contact.cfm
Human Body Systems
Project Begin & End Dates: Feb. 1-April 30, 2005
Project Summary: Participants will study all or any of the human body systems listed on this website http://kids-learn.org/susansilverman/systems/. Choose any or the activities that are listed on this project. You are most welcome to come up with your own activities. If you do, please let project coordinators know and they will add it to the list. Examples of work will be e-mailed to Susan Silverman for publication. They will post a maximum of 10 projects per class. This website will remain online as an educational resource.
Project Level: Grades 4-8
Registration Instructions: Send e-mail to humanbodysystems@yahoo.com
Include
your name, school, grade level, geographic loaction, website URL (optional).
Project Contact: Susan Silverman, http://www.susansilverman.com or humanbodysystems@yahoo.com
Project URL: http://kids-learn.org/susansilverman/systems/
Hooked on Books
Project Begin & End Dates: Feb. 25-March 20, 2005
Project Summary: How will you inspire your students to read this year?
Why not try a project that will get your students reading, talking and writing. Hooked on Books encourages your students to take time to read, share and reflect -- with children in their class, their country, world-wide.
Be sure you have permission to post student work on the World Wide Web.
School districts usually have requirements that teachers must follow.
Project Level: Grades 3-8
Registration Instructions: Send e-mail to project moderator Doug Cameron, cameroncom@adelphia.net
Project URL: http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=898
She's Not Just a Pretty Face Project
Project Begin & End Dates: Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2005
Project Summary: Join girls from classrooms across the world as they learn about women from the past and present who have impacted our world. Who knows, maybe your students findings will inspire them to unleash the same perseverance and strength of spirit these women did to make changes in their own world. For this project students will begin a task simulation where they have been hired by "She-roes", an organization that profiles strong women role models, to create a new line of dolls that will celebrate strong female role models of the twentieth century from all over the world. Their job will be to choose a strong female who has made a significant positive impact on their world, develop a concept for the doll, and then chose two activities that will profile their doll.
Project Level: Grades 5-8
Registration Instructions: To register for the project, contact Brenda Dyck at bdyck@masters.ab.ca
Project URL: http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/face/
Get Off My Back!
Project Begin & End Dates: Ongoing through April 30, 2005
Project Summary:"Get Off My Back!" is an online collaborative math project for middle school students from around the globe. The focus of our project is to explore the affects that heavy backpacks have on the growth and development of student posture and to identify safe backpack weights. This project will join students from other places in a common investigation about backpack safety while studying about statistics, graphing, percentage and ratio.
Project Level: Grades 4-8
Registration Instructions: To register for the project, contact Linda Dyck at lidyck@masters.ab.ca
Project URL: http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/back/index.html
Let Your Peace Kite Fly
Project Begin & End Dates: Ongoing
Project Summary:In this project students will plan, paint and build their kite. They will write on their kites a peace/love message.They will fly their kites in the same day and they will share the pictures of this event. They will share drafts, plans, methods to build the kites with other online students and look at other participants' work on Kidspace and send their comments. The kites are an expression of freedom because with them you are able to approach the sky, and then you fly in the sky, your dreams fly free with you. Pia Avolio de Martino.
Project URL: http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=16869&HoldNav=1428
Landmark project 2005
Project Begin & End Dates: Jan. 31-Feb. 25, 2005
Project Summary: Choose a landmark anywhere on planet Earth. Your students research facts about the landmark and compose nine interesting clues. Three clues per week per team will be posted in KidSpace under Landmark 2005 clues. All registered schools can ask one question per week of each of the other schools in the project. Questions must be ones which can be answered with yes or no. At the end of the three weeks, the school guessing the most landmarks will be declared the winner!
Project URL: http://65.42.153.210/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=17419
Random Acts of Kindness
Project Begin & End Dates: Ongoing
Project Summary: If you have a student who does something extra-special, why not let people know about it -- on the Internet. The Random Act of Kindness of the Month project allows teachers to submit a paragraph about a child who has been especially kind and helpful. Photos can be posted as well. Random Acts of Kindness is part of Project KAVE -- Kids Against Violence Everywhere, which was created by a team of teachers to promote peace.
Project Level: Grades 3-8
Registration Instructions: To register for the project, contact Stolzenberg at hstolz@aol.com
Project URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/ProjectKAVE/random1.html
Project Contact Information:
Harriet Stolzenberg, a teacher at P.S. 279 in Brooklyn, New York, has been running the Random Act of Kindness of the Month project since 1998.
Traveling Kids
Project Begin & End Dates: Ongoing
Project Summary: Have your students' families ever expressed a wish for a guide to kid-friendly destinations? With the ongoing Traveling Kids collaborative project, your students can help write one of their own.
Students aged 6-10 research places of interest in their home state that they have enjoyed visiting. They record such information as the location's address, hours of operation and entrance fees, and use Kid Pix to write a description and create an illustration of that destination. The entry is posted online at the Traveling Kids website.
Project Level: Grades 1-5
Project E-mail Address: travelingkids@yahoo.com
Registration Instructions: Send e-mail to the Project E-mail Address with school, city, state and grade
Project URL: http://www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~csinger/travelingkids/
Monster Exchange
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 15 - Dec. 15, 2004 (current project)
Project Summary: In Monster Exchange, students create a monster. During the project, each class is paired with students from another school. Each student draws a picture of a monster, writes a precise description of the creature, and e-mails the written description to students in the other classroom. Those students attempt to reproduce the drawings from the written descriptions. Besides giving students a chance to be creative, the project forces them to write clearly. Calvert said,"They must learn the five-step writing process; they know their work is being read by a real audience in some distant place."
Project Level: Grades 3-8
Project URL: http://www.monsterexchange.org/
The Santa Letters ©2004
Project Begin & End Dates: Oct. 18 to Dec. 10, 2004
Project Summary: A favorite annual GSN project since 1984. Students in grades K-1 or 2 write letters to "Santa." Students in grades 7-12 reply as "Santa." When you register to participate, we match you up with another class with whom you exchange letters... one primary class (ages 5-8 years), one older class (ages 12-17). We also provide you with abundant lesson ideas and tips to help your students have a successful... and very authentic... letter writing experience.
Age Range: 5 to 17 years
Project URL: http://www.gsh.org/gsh/project/santa/member/login/index.cfm?pjID=42&action=1
Project Sponsor: Global SchoolNet Foundation
Kids Vote 2004
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 10 to Nov. 9, 2004
Project Summary: Students will participate in a mock election for President of the Untied States. Students will register to vote, and then vote on Election Day 2004. Within the project students and teachers can participate in activities that center around the democratic process. The project includes objectives, web resources, activities and more.
Curriculum Fit: Community Interest, History, Social Studies
Technologies Used: Spreadsheet: data, analysis
Age Range: 5 to 18
Target Audience:
Project URL: http://www.rockdale.k12.ga.us/hce/onlineprojects/KidVoteAmerica/index.html
Playwriting in the Round
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 13 to Nov. 5, 2004 (This session is closed but you can register for the next session beginning in October)
Project Summary: School groups will be placed in groups of three with each group writing an act of a mystery play, then sending it to the next school for the next act to be completed. At the conclusion of the writing phase, schools will clean up the plays and share experiences.
Number of Classrooms: 30
Age Range: 12 to 18 years
Project URL: http://telecollaborate.net/education/pir/
United States Regions
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 30, 2004 to April 4, 2005
Project Summary: The Loudoun County fifth grade social science curriculum is focused on the regions of the United States of America from the perspective of human geography. Hillsboro and Waterford fifth grade students invite students from all regions of the United States to share information about their communities and or local areas. Students will use the information to investigate the interplay of economics, geographical and cultural features within and between regions and to study cause-effect relationships between factors and regions.
Number of Classrooms: No limit
Age Range: 8 to 12 years
Target Audience: United States
Project URL: http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/schools/waterford/USregions/regions.htm
The Sun Times, The Global Sun/Temperature Project
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 1 to Dec. 10, 2004
Project Summary: "How does proximity to the equator affect average daily temperature and hours of sunlight?" Join schools from around the world in this collaborative project as students measure the local temperature and record the number of minutes of sunlight per day over a specific week. This information, along with latitude and longitude descriptors of the school location, is submitted to the website. This data is then compiled into a database that the students will use to compare and contrast their results with other classes from all over the world. Students then explore the relationships between average temperature and amount of sunlight and proximity to the equator.
Students' final reports are also posted on the project website.
Students communicate with classes from all over the world and exchange cultural information.
Age Range: 8 to 18 years
Project URL: http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/tempproj3/en/
The Perfect Garden
Project Begin & End Dates: Aug. 25 to Dec. 25, 2004
Project Summary: The Perfect Garden is an online garden that you can submit your choice of animal to... you only need to observe the laws of nature and make sure your animal doesn't eat the rest of them!
Age Range: grades 1-8
Project URL: http://www.parkhillps.vic.edu.au/perfectg
Project Contact Information:
Michelle Smith at smith.michelle.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
Seasonal Changes Through Our Eyes and Yours
Project Begin & End Dates: September - June. Register now
Project Summary: Students compare and contrast seasonal data with other classrooms in environments and climates different than their own. Students will observe changes in a specific tree, temperature, seasons and times the sun rises and sets, and share their findings via e-mail.
Age Range: grades 1-3
Project URL: http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Seasons/home.htm
Boil, Boil, Toil, and Trouble: the International Boiling Point Project
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 21 to Dec. 21, 2004
Project Summary: We have people all over the world boiling water! In the past we've had climbers on Mt. Everest, school children in La Paz, Bolivia and college professors in Cheyenne, Wyoming all participating in the project. The purpose of this project is to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Anyone can participate in this year's project. All you have to do is boil a bit of water, record a bit of information and send it along to us to include in the database of results. Then, students can analyze all the data to reach an answer to the question: What causes a pot of water to boil? It's that simple!
Project URL: http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/boilproj/read.html
Meet the Candidates
Project Summary: Students will learn about candidates and elections as they participate in this timely project by working in teams to research platforms and policies, develop marketing plans, or plan for public awareness campaigns. All links are included and teacher planning materials are available for convenience.
Project Level: Upper elementary and middle school
Project URL: http://herrickses.org/searingtown/election/
Project Contact Information:
Teacher-Editor: Karen Kliegman, Library Media Specialist Searingtown Elementary School, Albertson, NY.
National Student/Parent Mock Election
Project Summary: The National Student/Parent Mock Election makes students and parents aware of the power of their ballot by actively involving them in a full-fledged campaign and national election. In the last two presidential election years alone, over 10 million students, parents and teachers participated in all 50 states, Washington, DC and 14 countries/territories around the world where Americans are based. Over 40 million have participated since the project began. The National Student/Parent Mock Election is a non-profit, non-partisan organization.
Mock Election Day is Oct. 28, 2004
Curriculum information is available at
http://www.nationalmockelection.com/curriculum.html
Project URL: http://www.nationalmockelection.com/about_nspme.html
Asian Pacific Education Consortium (APEC) Cyber Academy (ACA)
Project Summary: The Asian Pacific Education Consortium
(APEC) Cyber Academy (ACA) is a networked learning environment designed specifically for K-12 students across the Asia-Pacific Region (all the places surrounding the Pacific Ocean). ACA is built on a learner-centered paradigm, and provides project-based learning and rich learning community. Students and teachers could experience all the advantages of Internet in education with ACA.
The collaborative learning program is composed of four individual learning projects: Money, Convenience Store, A Day in Our Schools, and Our Holidays. In these projects, students are expected to form teams, take part in the weekly learning activities, accomplish the assignments collaboratively, and even communicate with their distant learning partners through ACA's communication tools.
Project URL: http://linc.hinet.net/apec/
Project Contact Information: ACA is also conducting an international online contest starting in October 2004. The contest includes two
activities: The APEC 2004 Networked Collaborative Learning Program and the APEC Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Cyber Camp. For more details about the online contest programs, please go to APEC Cyber Academy at http://linc.hinet.net/apec/ or send e-mail to apec@avatar.ntntc.edu.tw.
Newsday 2004
Project Begin & End Dates: Sept. 17 - Dec. 4, 2004
Project Summary: Students write news articles and then submit them to the "Newsday" newswire on Oct. 18-Nov. 12, 2004. Then they produce their own newspaper based on the articles submitted by all of the participating classes. You send a copy of your newspaper to all other participants. You then receive copies of newspapers published by the other classes.
Registration Instructions: Register at http://www.gsh.org/gsh/project/newsday/
Age Range: 10 - 16 years
Project URL: http://www.gsh.org/gsh/project/newsday/
Journey North
Project Summary: Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context.
Project URL: http://www.learner.org/redirect/september/jnorth1.html
Come Fly With Me!
Project Summary: Come Fly With Me! is a math-based telecollaborative project that will join middle school math students from around the globe in a collaborative learning venture that centers on data collection and analysis. From Oct. 1- Dec. 31, 2004, participating classroom will collect and work with real data by analyzing and drawing conclusions gathered while flying paper airplanes at their school. In groups, students will calculate mean distances (individually and as a class). Each class's resulting data will be posted on the project's online data bank. This data will help classes enter into a discussion about why some airplanes traveled further than others. The class with the best class mean will be posted and celebrated by Jan., 15, 2005 .
Come Fly With Me! will engage students in a purposeful collaborative, data collection activity that will hone their measurement skills, their ability to work in a group to collect data and their ability determine the mean and analyze the results. Students will also have the opportunity to work with classrooms from across the world and to enter into a fun and practical learning competition.
Curriculum Fit: Math/science overlap (data analysis and flight)
Age Range: Grades 5-8
Target Audience:
Project URL: http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/fly2/index.html
Project Contact Information: Brenda Dyck at dyckba@shaw.ca
Recommended projects from previous years
See recommended projects from previous years. Even if the project
is complete or no longer enrolling new members, these listings can inspire
new or adapted project ideas. No guarantees; links to these resources are no
longer actively updated.
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