Web Projects
ePals Global community that connects learners locally, nationally or internationally.
Flat Classroom Project Global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students to communicate, share, and interact
GeoGame 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.
Journey North The primary goal of this website is to engage students in a global study of wildlife migration. You can join any number of projects that showcase studies of several different animals: eagles, whales, robins, butterflies, manatees, and more. They even offer projects that will give your class an opportunity to study their local ecosystem.
Monster Exchange Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from a variety of schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. The students must then write a description of the monster. The partnered classes then exchange their descriptions via e-mail and the Internet. These students are then challenged to use reading comprehension skills to read the descriptions and translate them into a monster picture. The true challenge involves creating a redrawn picture as close to the original picture as possible without looking at the original and using only the written description of the monster.
Mystery Class Mystery Class is a global game of hide-and-seek. Students follow sunlight clues to find ten secret sites located around the world. As students solve the mystery, they discover the reasons for seasons.
Postcard Geography This is a simple project, offered to classes all over the world via the Internet. Your class commits to exchanging picture postcards (purchased, computer or handmade) with all other participants.
Web Ed-ventures Explore various marine and aquatic science topics from the comfort of your chair (From the Oregon Coast Aquarium)
Westward Ho! This simulated journey allows classes to travel the trail as part of the Westward HO! Wagon Train. In classrooms across the country, collaborative families, based on real families from America's past, make daily decisions (travel and fate scenarios are provided by the project moderators) that will influence their safe arrival in Oregon.
World Wide Biome Project - In this integrated biology and computer project students study the ecosystem where they live and share the information with students around the world.
CIESE Collaborative and Real-Time Data Projects CIESE provides interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet, focusing on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
GlobeTracker's Mission Globetracker’s Mission is a unique, engaging way for students in grades 2-6 to learn geography, map skills, and world cultures through an episodic story. Each week, a new episode, in the format of a blog post, appears on the Globetracker’s Mission site.
ProjectExplore ProjectExplore provides virtual fieldtrips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 short films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region’s food, music, culture, and language. The programs cover multiple subject areas that foster cross-cultural understanding.
Teaching with the Internet Links to many inquiry-based online learning activities, including Web Treasure Hunts, Interactive Online Simulations, Virtual Field Trips, WebQuests, and iAdventures
Tramline Virtual field trips
Web-Based Projects Links to more webquests
The Webquest Portal Links to many great webquests along with information about using webquests in your classroom.
Filamentality Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities.
WebQuest Design Patterns Templates for creating webquests using patterns based on existing webquests that instructionally sound and can be easily modified
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Harrisonburg City Public Schools
Last updated
July 11, 2011