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Stopping Along the Way
Learners use atlases, maps, and Web resources to plan a day trip to at least one city or point of interest that is on the way to their final destination.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit
Students develop an action plan to prevent trash from becoming a problem in the future.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit
Students analyze the data from questionnaires to prepare a report. They distribute the report via e-mail or through a report published on a Web page to those who participated.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit
Students develop a questionnaire to distribute via e-mail or Web page forms that visitors fill out based on the data they gathered during their clean-up activities.
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Creating a Web Cookbook
Students use software to write a menu, including suggestions based on their own experiences cooking them, cultural and social context for their recipes and pictures or graphics. They shop for and cook the dinner for their families.
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Selecting and Analyzing Recipes
Young scholars use the Web and other resources provided to select several recipes to combine into a menu they can cook for their families at home. They develop a sense of how food is prepared and kinds of preparation necessary to cook...
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Share Classroom Fat Data with Other Students
Students research eating habits in different places and in different cultures.
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Comparing Asian and Impressionist Landscapes
Students draw on their knowledge of Impressionist and Asian landscapes to reflect on the differences found in the two genres of landscape painting.
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Exploring Homes and Resources
Students search for images of and information about the exchange country's environments and housing, using a variety of sources, and evaluate primary sources of information in terms of accuracy and usefulness.
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Imagining Homes and Environments
Students discuss relationship between environments, natural resources and housing, establish connection with students in classroom or school there, and paint pictures of what they think homes look like based on basic data about environment.
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Letters to Local and State Legislators
Pupils locate their local or state legislator's address. They write and send letters to their local and state legislators critiquing their voting record on environmental issues and sharing their own views on these issues.
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Environmental Voting Records of Legislators
Students collect and record data on the environmental voting record of their local and state legislators using the Internet. They identify examples of environmental problems or endangered species in their state.
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Building Web Pages
Students examine local community agencies and their contributions to the community. They create Web pages that profile the community agencies and their interviews with the volunteers.
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Further Study Of Neoclassicism And Romanticism
High schoolers conduct Internet research to answer the remaining N/R questions. They are encouraged to contact and communicate with N/R professors or other experts, either singly or over e-mail discussion lists.
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What Makes a Healthy Plant?
Students predict the effects of water, light, and soil on the development of a plant and then design an experiment to test their predictions.
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Application
Students apply and generalize data, and prepare and present an oral presentation with a visual aid.
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What's in a Name?
Middle schoolers use Internet and library resources to find the meanings of their first and/or last names and discuss the evolution of the concept of naming individuals.
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Critiquing the Neoclassicism/Romanticism Project
High schoolers request feedback on their projects from Neoclassicist/Romanticist experts they have contacted via e-mail or other means. They work in pairs to critique each other's work.
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Selecting the Focus of the Neoclassicism/Romanticism Project
Learners identify and flesh out an area of particular interest to them in the field of N/R for the purpose of developing and submitting a more in-depth project on that area of interest.
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Further Study of Neoclassicism and Romanticism
High schoolers continue to conduct Internet research to answer the remaining N/R questions. They are encouraged to contact and communicate with N/R professors or other experts, either singly or over e-mail discussion lists.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Final Reports
Pupils write reports of their research findings to be shared with friends and families. They develop their reports into web pages for publication on the Internet.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit:
Students conduct secondary source research using the internet and library resources to research the backgrounds of their family's cultural and ethnic heritages.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories
Young scholars conduct oral histories of family members to explore their cultural and ethnic heritage after developing a set of research questions.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Response to Essays
Students receive and read electronic reviews of their essays.