Project Resources:
The Hobart-Malang Electronic Mail Projecthttp://anti.pacit.gov.au/fahan/compute/indo.html
A web site produced by fourth-years students and teachers at a school in Australia that chronicles their rich year-long exchanges with peers attending the Malang School in Indonesia.
Read to Write Project
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/project/kreider/index.html
This site coordinates literature study through it activities according to literary genres, such as historical fiction or biography.
Desert and Desertification
http://environment.negev.k12.il/desert/desert.htm
An example of an interdisciplinary investigation and thematically organized inquiries.
Women of NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
One of the best developed electronic appearances on the Web. The site acquaints visitors with the specializations, histories, and daily lives of more than 50 female NASA scientists, mathematicians, engineers and administrators.
Hewlett Packard’s E-Mail Mentor Program
http://mentor.external.hp.com/
This program helps individual US students in Grades 5 through 12 who are interested in math or scinece find mentors in the company's international centers.
Electronic Emissary
A service that matches volunteer subject-matter experts from around the globe with teachers and their classes.
Global Grocery List Project
http://www.landmark.project.com/ggl.html
Kidlink’s Multicultural Calendar
http://www.kidlink.org:80/KIDPROJ/MCC/
A database of contributions from students around the globe about holidays celebrated where they live.
Midlink Magazine
http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/
A quarterly e-zine created by and for students ages 10 through 15. Each issue organizes pupils' graphic creations, poems, essays, and short stories around several themes.
Global SchoolNet
Utilizing the Internet and the most advanced technology of the day, their mission is to "harness the power of the Internet to provide ongoing opportunities to support learner both in and outside of the school environment. This sites links to many projects that are presently be carried out by schools around the globe.
EnvitoNet
A site where student collect envrionments data at many difference sites , then combine and anyalyze it to reeal patterns that help address current scientific challenges. Another example is RoadKill 98 at http://earth.simmons.edu/roadkill/roadkill.html
GeoGame
http://www.gsn.org/project/gg/
One of the longest running and most well-received information search activities on the Internet. This geography game requires schools to send in 10 pieces of information about their schools' locations and this becomes clues for participants why try to match the clues with communities.
Write and Illustrate a Children’s Story
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~dfalk/Writing.html
Children create sequentially issustrated stories one page at a time.
KidCast for Peace
http://creativity.net/kidcast2.html
The site shows artwork from young people around the globe, helping people share ways to make this a happier, healtier, safer and peaceful world.
Electronic United Nations
http://www.simulations.com/eun/index.htm
This project invites classrooms to become countries and interact with other participating classes in a simulated United Nations, discussing issues, creating and completing surveys and crafting and voting on proposals.
I*EARN
Examples of projects that encourage young people to make the planet a better place to live. The focus is on real and immediate problems that propose students to take some kind of action.
Holocaust/Genocide Project
http://www.igc.apc.org/iearn/hgp/
Explores the Holocause in Europe during World War II among other genocidal incidents in history.
Earth Day Groceries Project
http://www.halcyon.com/arboths/earthday.html
Coordinates the efforts of thousands of US students to decorage grocery bags with images and text to increase environmental awareness on Earth Day (April 22)
Save the Beaches Project
http://ednhp.hartford.edu/WWW/Nina/Beaches2.html
Helps students who live in coastal communities clean their local beaches and generate data on the quantities and types of litter found.