Internet Projects are great ways to engage your students in authentic and
collaborative online activities that support curriculum standards. Teachers must
ensure that all content sent/received is in accordance with the New
Bedford Public School's Acceptable Use Policy.
Cross-Curricular
Global
Schoolhouse Project
"The Global Schoolhouse is the original virtual meeting place where
educators, students, parents and community members can collaborate,
interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources."
ELA
Exchange Stanley and his journal with other schools.
Students create a monster, then write a detailed description of it. The
description is sent to other
students who take the description and draw the monster without seeing the
original.
Science and Mathematics
"Together with JASON founder Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of
scientists and researchers, you and your students can explore fascinating
natural environments and apply what you learn to your own corner of the
world."
"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. They track the coming of
spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles,
robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes — and other birds and mammals; the
budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events."
"Data are collected by citizen scientists across North America and
in many other countries. Scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology use
the data to answer scientific questions about urban birds."
"The Earth Day Groceries Project is a cost-free environmental
awareness project in which students decorate paper grocery bags with
environmental messages for Earth Day. This is one of the oldest and largest
educational projects on the Internet."
Curriculum
Standards
"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."
Curriculum
Standards
"Students around the United States and other countries will collect
samples from local ponds to answer the question: Are the organisms found in
pond water the same all over the world? "
Curriculum
Standards
"An investigation of water quality using fresh water sources from around
the world. This project is especially geared toward high school students."
Curriculum
Standards
"This project taps into some of the exciting
applications of the Internet in education by having students collaborate in
large numbers across great distances to "pool" large amounts of
data."
Curriculum
Standards
Students "determine how their geographic location (i.e. where they live)
affects their average daily temperature and hours of sunlight."
Curriculum
Standards
In this project, "students will investigate their local environment and
share that information with other students from around the country and the
world."
Curriculum
Standards
Students attempt to "recreate the remarkable measurement of the circumference of the earth
that was done over 2000 years ago. Using only simple tools such as rulers,
protractors, and meter sticks, students will measure shadows cast by a meter
stick at different locations on the earth."
The National Math
Trail
Standards
Connection
"The National Math Trail is an opportunity for K-12 teachers and students to
discover and share the math that exists in their own environments. Students
explore their communities and create one or more math problems that relate to
what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site,
along with photos, drawings, sound recordings, videos--whatever can be adapted
to the Internet."
(Elementary)