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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
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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Virtual Vacation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers select a foreign city, research the city using the Internet, and plan an eleven-day vacation to that city. This lesson is ideal for a social studies classroom and includes ideas for using iMovie, Excel, and MS Works or...
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Virtual Visit to the Newsround Studio

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore a newsroom and its newscasters. Using the internet, students view pictures of newscasters. They read information about each person. Young scholars view a 460 degree photo and look behind the scenes at a news studio.
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Creating The Virtual Model

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage in a instructional activity that is about the concept of earthquake design. The instructional activity includes the integration of technology and how it can be used to create buildings and structures for...
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Visiting Tetra's Web Site on the Internet

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners visit the Tetra-fish web site. They visit a virtual aquarium. Students select their own aquarium and tank size. They select up to twelve different types of tropical fish and read information about their virtual aquarium.
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Find the Epicenter

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders visit the Virtual Earthquake Web site and complete activities that demonstrate how geologists locate the epicenters of earthquakes. The site uses actual data from historic earthquakes.
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The Android Factory

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Young scholars explore the idea that primitive virtual 3D objects can be reshaped to infinitely original combinations using additive and subtractive methods. They create 3-D objects with a computer which necessitates a cooperation of...
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Cave Formation Age Estimation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate growth rates of flowstone formations. They view a virtual field trip and discuss how flowstones form. They observe the cave fieldtrip and predict the growth rate for a cave formation. They graph growth rates and...
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Interpreting the History, Geology, and Ecology of Monterey Bay

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore what they know about Monterey Bay in the special topics course and share their information with K-12 grade children at local schools by participating in the Virtual Canyon Project. Students in this service learning...
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Changing New Brunswick Industries Through Changing Technologies

For Teachers 12th
Explore and examine the changes in New Brunswick forestry, shipbuilding, and communication through technology. Your class will research the "Saint John: an Industrial City in Transition," virtual exhibit and then prepare a presentation...
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African Music and Instruments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students listen to African music and determine its origin. They discuss basic elements of African music and sing an African song. Students examine the rhythm, instruments and culture of Africa. Using various websites, they observe...
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Constructing Polyhedra

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of polyhedra. In this polyhedra lesson, students use the Internet to manipulate virtual polyhedra models. Students create polyhedra models from straws, toothpicks, cardboard, Plexiglas, and other materials.
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Part of it All

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take a closer look at the organization of newspapers. In this journalism lesson plan, students take virtual tours of newspapers and complete a newspaper puzzle handout. Students then compare the layout of weekly rural newspapers...
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Chef Solus Cooking Academy Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students evaluate human health by participating in an interactive activity. In this food choice activity, students discuss the decisions they make each day in order to stay healthy with the food they eat. Students utilize the Internet to...
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Martin Luther King Day

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students access a varitey of Martin Luther King, Jr. themed websites. They locate information about Dr. King and his leadership in the American civil rights movement. They take a virtual tour of his birth home and view photographic...
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World of Protists

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars observe a jar of pond water and predict how much life they think exists in the jar and watch a "Bill Nye: The Science Guy" video regarding protists. They participate in an online virtual pond dip where they begin to...
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Discovering the Physical Geography of Washington

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students develop a mental map of the state of Washington and draw it on paper. Using the Virtual Atlas, they identify the physical features of the state and draw them on their map. They also examine the populations and diversity of the...
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Magnets and Springs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore magnetic attraction. In this magnets lesson, students participate in an interactive whiteboard activity in which objects are dragged onto a virtual table and categorized as to whether they are "repelled" or "attracted"...
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Preservation of Civil War Battlefields

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the importance of battlefield preservation.  In this US History instructional activity, 8th graders participate in a virtual tour of battle sites.  Students create a map of Gettysburg to see the topography of the...
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Our State Road Trip

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a virtual tour of the state of Florida.
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Lesson Plan: Touring The Alamo

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars discover the size of the Alamo and artifacts of the time period by navigating through a virtual tour of the Alamo.
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Ecosystems and Habitats

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders go on a virtual field trip to five ecosystems. They investigate and videotape a temperate forest in the school's backyard.
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Chris' Culture Club Cruise

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities.They follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and...
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Country: Italy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore Italy. They visit sites about its culture, history, cuisine, art, cars, and traditions. They take a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. They read about the history of pizza. They study Italian phrases and pronunciation...

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