Young scholars conduct research using the internet, school server and newspapers on the history of the brick memorial for veterans and its developmental process. They create and design a three column page layout for a brochure using...

Seventh graders examine different countries in Africa to research. They choose one to concentrate their research on using the five themes of geography. They design a multimedia presentation that will make up the African safari.

Students, working in teams, role-play as advertising agents creating ad campaigns for a planet in the solar system. They design commercials for video, Hyperstudio, or Web pages. The activity includes research, all the production stages,...

Students design a space settlement to live in and give an oral presentation of their creation.

Students work together to develop their own web quests. They research different topics and create a PowerPoint presentation. They share their web quests with the class.

Learners participate in a project to map their school. They measure and graph various areas around the school. Students find the longitude and latitude of the school and research the school's history, and highlight special important areas.

What a great project. Graphic arts students consider the social, political, and economic impact made by a chosen invention. They build an argument to substantiate their reasons for choosing said invention. They create an oral...

Students consider the insight to the past that oral histories can provide. They, in groups, analyze oral histories, prepare to interview a family member on their recollections of a historical event and then write a historical narrative.

Students access the Internet, research one of the planets, copy and paste necessary information, and design a creature that would survive for a year on their planet. They present their creature and its qualities to the rest of the class.

Students research a notable painter and use his or her work as inspiration to create a functional light switch plate.  In this art lesson, students find an artist whose work is appealing to them to research and critique. ...

Pupils research heroes and create their own criteria of what constitutes a hero. They choose a personal hero and create a web page that portrays the individual and their accomplishments. Students create a presentation for the class.

Middle schoolers participate in book club forums where they write descriptive, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, or inference essays. They take on the role of a character in their bok and publish a web page.

Students create a graphic organizer in preparation for a web page about a specific science-related topic. This activity is used as a follow-up to a field trip experience and can be adapted for many different subjects.

Students discuss the concept of being successful. The class produces a web page that showcases leaders from their community. They describe their contributions to the community and state the qualities that led them to success.

Students research local leaders and create a web page showcasing the leader.

Students compare their school to other student's schools around the world. They evaluate the education system and discuss how they can improve it. They write paragraphs explaining the different schools and place them with pictures on a...

Introduce your class to encoding text. Pairs work together to create a protocol to send text prior to learning ASCII encoding. Groups then collaborate to send and translate ASCII codes creating a formatted text message. 

Joey Alphonso made up this game, which is played using a gator skin ball and a tennis racket on a basketball court. The simple rules and strategy of the game are explained. This is a high-scoring, run around activity. Everyone can...

Here is a chemistry worksheet that was designed for a specific textbook section dealing with oxidation-reduction reactions, but it can be used in conjunction with any general chemistry curriculum. To complete the page, learners must...

Students explore criticisms of the pharmaceutical drug industry. They also become aware of the difficult and lengthy process of testing new drugs by inventing fictional drugs and testing plans.

Students write HTML to have one web page automatically advance to another page. They add embedded information that help others find their web site using Internet searches.

Students use the internet to gather information about holidays around the world. They create a calendar with all of the holidays outlined and calculate the percentages of countries who celebrate each one. They design a greeting card to...

Students design a "container" for his/her egg to determine whether the egg remain intact when dropped from a predetermined height.