Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How a Bill Becomes a Law
This lesson will focus on how bills become laws. This interdisciplinary lesson combines social studies, language arts and reading skills and concepts. Students will research the topic through the Internet and other digital resources and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Trip Along the Alimentary Canal
Students will prepare a digital presentation on the digestive organs, accessory structures, processes, digestive chemicals, and nutrients. This is a part of the unit on digestion and metabolism, and is performed at the beginning of the...
Other
Harnessing the Web: Intro to Networked Project Based
This tutorial site for NetPBL (Networked Project-Based Learning) offers guidance for developing collaborative learning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Usa State Facts
During this technology-based lesson, fifth grade students explore different states by locating information on the Internet. Students use the information they find and create a presentation to help their classmates learn about the states.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Choosing Media for a Presentation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will introduce students to the use of visuals and other media in their presentations that will keep their audiences clapping. When preparing for a presentation,...
Other
Mcsr: Hints for Web Authors
This site from the Mississipi Center for Supercomputing Research provides a continuously revised report on tips for web design authoring.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
NOAA
Noaa: Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum Overview [Pdf]
The Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum is a multimedia curriculum focused on the theme "Estuaries & You." It includes a series of online activities for middle school students that highlight our nation's living laboratories, all...
Other
New Brunswick Museum: Reaching Into Our Past
In this unit, young scholars research 19th century New Brunswick history and compare it to the present. They produce newspaper articles and a multimedia presentation. There are suggestions for cross-curricular activities as well....
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: Genes Are Real Things
Long after Gregor Mendel knew that something controlled heredity three other scientists finally put his research together with new evidence from microscopes to determine that genes do exist. This multimedia article includes animations,...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dna From the Beginning: One Gene Makes One Protein
Early research showed that genes code for proteins. This was based on studies using mutant strains of bread mold. This multimedia article includes animations, pictures, video, biographical information, and quiz questions that are...
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Chico's Salsa Virtual Tour
This multimedia tour of Salsa dancing includes general background information, a chronology of salsa, sound and video clips, biographies on salsa artists, and resources for further reading and research. Also included is a "Salsa...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Orangutans
This multimedia site includes video and audio clips. The maps and fun facts will be very beneficial to students doing research projects.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Orcas
Orcas, more commonly known as killer whales, are featured on this multimedia site. These video clips, audio clips, photographs and facts will be very beneficial to students doing research projects.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: River Otter
This multimedia article reveals the natural history of otters. The facts, maps, and video and audio clips are perfect resources for research.
Other
Pbs Wisconsin Education: Climate Wisconsin
Climate Wisconsin is an educational multimedia project featuring stories of climate change. All stories are supported by research conducted in collaboration with the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts. Background essays and...
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Effects of the Civil War
Students will work in groups to research the causes of the Civil War, events during the war, and Reconstruction. They will compile their information into a multimedia presentation. They will use research to answer the essential question,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Exploring Community Through Local History
Guidelines for exploring local history and culture through examining a collection of written and spoken stories, landmarks, and traditions, such as food, festivals, and events. Students will research a variety of primary resources and...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Balancing Privacy and Security: Government Data Mining
What is data mining? Students will explore the meaning of data mining and through research create a multimedia presentation of government data mining and privacy.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Are We Living?
In this lesson, students collaborate to research economic systems of the United States and two other countries. Students will collect, evaluate, and synthesize information to create a multimedia presentation that compares economic...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Primary Technology Maps
This hands-on, inquiry-based lesson combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Students will have the opportunity...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Look at Our Natural Environment
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to research, analyze, and collect data on how the natural environment influenced the Native Americans long ago, and how it still influences us today. Using information gathered from...