Globalearn Expeditions  (2-12): http://www.globalearn.com/expeditions/expeditions.html
Globalearn is a terrific travel project to join.  Six or seven explorers travel to different parts of the world, this spring, the explorers will travel to the Mediterranean.  They will upload daily pictures, geographic information, cultural experiences.  Each explorer could be followed by a small group in your class since each explorer creates files and pictures daily.  The Globalearn explorers visit schoolchildren along the way and their interviews and pictures become available.  Your class can submit questions to the explorers.  This expedition and the many lessons available for free to your class.  You can also pay a fee and have teaching materials sent to you via mail and have a bit more interactivity with other classes who have paid a fee and are following the expedition.  If the Mediterranean is not your area of study this spring, Globalearn has archived many previous expeditions, including my favorites:  Across the US - fall 1998, visits to South America, and Marco Polo's Travels from Italy to Hong Kong -TransAsia - spring, 1997.

Painting the Planet  (K-12) http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/painting/index.htm
is a project that offers teachers a range of supported global art projects providing for exhibitions, international exchanges and publication in virtual galleries on the web.  The project team is made up of I*EARN teachers from Uganda, Japan, Australia, USA and Russia and offer different themes.    Some of the themes for 1999 are Super Heros and Multicultural Issues.  You can join I*EARN for free and then participate with posting student art and writing on the Internet.  A great part of this project is that the I*EARN teachers have created student worksheets for each project which can be printed and handed out.

A Day in the Life of An Ice Cube (2-9): Email  to Dan Phelon in Windsor, Connecticut windsoronline4@windsorct.org to join the project.  This class has  designed an original online project involving scientific inquiry by students. By collecting data on a simple, predesigned experiment which is conducted in different  locations during the week of March 29, 1999, students will test the hypothesis that global address and climate affect the time it takes  for an ice cube to change physical form and totally melt. Students will (1.) use telecommunications to collaborate and collect data, (2.) make predictions of meltdown times and state reasons for predictions and (3.) analyze and interpret data to construct a reasonable explanation and be willing to modify opinions based on evidence.

Spring Monster Exchange (K-8)   http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/monster
Students use writing process/skills to communicate a drawing/s ofstudent-created monsters into detailed written descriptions that students from cooperating schools read to duplicate the original drawing as closelyas possible. The real challenge is that the remotely drawn monster is created only from reading the description! At the end of the project, both the original and duplicate drawings are digitized and published on the web in the MindsEye Monster Galleries so that participants can see the resulting drawings for comparison.  There are directions and lesson plans available on the site.

Jason Project in the Rain Forest (4-12) http://www.jasonproject.org/
Bob Ballard and National Geographic sponsor an annual expedition to parts of the world to study science and geographical discoveries. Past expeditions are available on the website, including:  oceanographic research in the Mediterranean Sea, volcano studies in Hawaii, coral reef studies in Florida and Bermuda, icebergs and geothermal sites, and many others. This tenth year of the project, the Jason Argonauts (students, teachers, and scientists) are visiting rainforests - fossil rainforests in Colorado, a temperate rainforest in Washington state, and the tropical rainforest of Peru.  There are posted science reports and pictures available now and during the expedition in March, and later.  You can keep track of the explorers for free, but you can also be trained  for Jason Team ONLINE  - to use more of this website for extra lesson plans and interconnectivity with other schools participating in Jason Project work. Your students can do local aquatic studies and post them to the Jason site.  You can buy training and materials. Look to the fall for training near you.  View a rainforest canopy.

Jan Brett's Literature Projects (K-3) http://www.janbrett.com./activities_pages_projects.htm
 These are mini-projects your class can do to accompany a literature lesson with read-aloud books.

World Wide Biome Project    http://www.ncboard.edu.on.ca/biome/
This ecology/internet project is designed to have students from various grades learn about their natural environment.  It has them do this by performing a field study appropriate to their age and locale.  They then send us the data, and we will add it to our Research Page, of studies from warious world biomes.  They can exchange e-mail with classes, or examine other completed studies.

Tooth Tally Project (K-1) http://www.wcpss.net/Wilburn/tooth.htm
The teacher will then begin keeping an official count of how many teeth are lost by the students in their
class.  By posting these numbers on a bulletin board graph in the classroom, the class can practice their graphing skills daily (or weekly, as desired).  This data can be used to do daily math problems involving teeth, also.  Examples of problems will be shared among the teachers in the groups.  Once a month, each teacher will send an email message to each class in their group stating the offical number of lost teeth in their classroom for that month.  Teachers can use this data to do comparisions.  (Examples are on the project website.) More complete directions will be emailed to teachers as they join the project.

Charlie the Chaparrel Email Project  (5)   to join, send email to mailto:snoble@bryanisd.org
Participants would be responsible for taking pictures of their school and community to share with Navarro Students in Texas. The booklet that will accompany Charlie will tell the Navarro Elementary story. Participants are responsible for mailing Charlie to the next school and the camera to Bryan. The project teacher will then make copies of the film for your school and mail them to you.

Great American Mail Race (2-10) http://idt.net/~urbanch/courtlandt/mailrace.html
The goal of this project is to enrich students' study of the United States through the usage of a survey to gather
data about students living in other cities and states throughout the United States of America. Participation is not limited to students in the United States, but focus is on the geography of the United States. Other goals of this project are: to increase students' language arts skills; develop internet research skills; graphing and graph interpretation skills; as well as having some fun meeting and learning about other students in the United States of America.  Surveys and lesson plans are on the site as well as great links to geographical Internet sites.

Invent America (K-9) http://www.inventamerica.org/
Educational program designed to stimulate problem solving, critical and creative, thinking shills.  The Foundation provides a 100 page handbook that includes grade appropriate lesson plans (designed as  cirriculum intergrators)  with coordinated student activities. The program is open to all students in grades K-8 in public,private or home schools.  Invent America! can be used with gifted,special education or vocational programs.  It has been designed to be used with all aspects of the curriculum -   school wide, grade wide or single classroom.   Grade level winners are submitted to the Founation who choose first, second, third and two honorable mention winners in each grade and award thousands of dollars to winning students each year. The program is supported with teacher training inservices, conferences and program upgrades available through our website.

President's Project (3-8)  http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/sses/prez.htm
Research a President from your home state using all available resources and  submit a proposal for your President's page by April 30th, 1999; the site proposed should be:
        *Graphically pleasing to the eye with a balance of text and images
        *Chocked full of information on your President's public and private life
        *Well endowed with links to other sites about your President
        *Anchored with links to points of historic interest in your state
        *Designed to include an online activity visitors may enjoy while learning more about your President

Earth Day Groceries Project (K-9)  http://earthdaybags.org/
An Earth Day Celebration -A school borrows paper grocery bags from a local grocer. Students decorate these bags with beautiful Earth Day art, environmental messages, the name of their school, etc.  Bags are returned to the store and are distributed  to amazed and delighted shoppers on Earth Day (April 22). A school representative sends in a short email message to document their participation on the project website.  Here is a sample activity done by a New York school for this project.

Project SWOOPE   http://www.wvu.edu/~ruralnet/pswoope/index.htm
SWOOPE (Students Watching Over Our Planet Earth) is a cooperative effort to provide students with hands-on activities designed to increase their scientific and environmental knowledge, specifically :
              Acid Rain Project
              Monarch Watch
SWOOPE allows students and teachers to collect data in their local area and share it with others. The goal is to allow them to view environmental issues from a larger perspective as they become active participants in learning about those issues.

Kidlink (3-9)     http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/projects.html#coming
    Many projects to join.  One this spring will be Hunt for Explorers, similar to the Landmarks Game.

Global Water Quality  (3-12) http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/waterproj/
    This collaborative project allows students to compare the water quality of their local river, stream, lake or pond with other fresh water sources around the world.  Students submit data (temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, organism identification, etc.)  to the project web site and the results are posted in a database for all participants to examine. During the project, students can discuss their questions, findings, and theories
with other participants.  Students' final reports are posted on the web site.

Clarence is on the Mooove! (K-l) email to dkendall@council-bluffs.k12.ia.us
Our kindergarten classes will send Clarence the stuffed cow to participating classes across America.  When Clarence visits a class, he will come with a book, The Heartland, a journal, a scrapbook of Council Bluffs, Iowa and quilt square.  Clarence will visit each classroom for four days.  When he arrives, the host class will e-mail the coordinators and let them know Clarence has arrived safetly.  During Clarence's visit the host class will use his journal to write about his adventures in their class.  At the end of the four days, the host class should mail Clarence to the next class, along with his journal, scrapbook, decorated quilt square and his book.  They should also e-mail the coordinators to let them know that he has left the school.

Live from the Sun (4-12)   http://passport.ivv.nasa.gov/sun
LIVE FROM THE SUN (LFSUN) features the most recent discoveries about our local star, the ultimate source of all life on Earth and the only star we can study close up. Debuting in Winter 1999, LFSUN will continue with updated Web and video materials through Solar Maximum, expected to peak in 2000-2001. This is the place to start your exploration of our star, the Sun, and connect to amazing information and beautiful images from the best sources in the USA and around the world. Visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Solar Observatory telescopes at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, operated by AURA for NSF, NOAA's Space Environment Center, and Lockheed Martin's spacecraft design and test facility in Palo Alto. Meet the men and women who study the Sun.

Book Buddies  (K-6)  http://www.schoollife.net/schools/bookbuddies
An upper primary child selects a book to share with a junior primary child. They choose appropriate questions and plan an activity to share.  Ideas can be placed on the web site listed to share with other Book Buddies around the world.

Conservation Poetry Contest (K-8)  http://madrona.ssd.k12.wa.us/Site/conservation/Conservationpoetry.html
The students of Room 10 at Madrona Elementary, Washington are sponsoring a conservation poetry contest using a database on the World Wide Web. Students and adults of all age levels are encouraged to participate! The contest is a project that grew out of Room 10's study of solid waste, air, and water problems. Any type of poem is acceptable, but all entries must in some way include themes that incorporate the Earth, its natural environment, or conservation efforts of some kind. All entries will be evaluated by students according to criteria that include use of poetic devices, writing traits, rhythm and length. Prizes will be offered to the winners in each category .

Mighty M & M Math
http://mighty-mm-math.caffeinated.org/main.htm
Mighty m&m Math teaches fractions and percentages in a motivating and mouth-watering way. Using bags of m&m's, it answers these questions:
               1. What is the percentage of each color?
               2. Are the percentages similar worldwide?
This is a great math manipulative project were your students can post results to the WWW!

GeoGame
http://www.gsn.org/project/gg/index.html
This geography skills activity has been around since 1991!  Site includes a selection of games to play, including suggested teaching strategies and lesson plans ready to go.  This is a great Internet activity that can be adapted to fit any number of content areas.

Baylink
http://www.baylink.org/
Bay Link is an educational site centered on the Chesapeake Bay estuary, the people living on its drainage area, and the effect the various natural and human forces have on the Bay.  Try out the collection of lesson plans and submit your own lesson plans for use by your colleagues.

Journey North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Over 4,000 schools, representing approximately 200,000 students, are expected to participate in the Spring, 1999 Journey North Program. These students hail from all 50 U.S. States and 7 Canadian Provinces.  The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring. Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the Hemisphere. In addition, students are linked with scientists who provide their expertise directly to the classroom. Several migrations are tracked by satellite telemetry, providing live coverage of individual animals as they migrate. As the spring season sweeps across the Hemisphere, students note changes in daylight, temperatures, & all living things as the food chain comes back to life.  The Journey North program extends for four months each year, with live inter-active programming from February 2 until June 1. In addition, each fall's "Journey South" activities begin in September and help students and teachers get ready for the spring program. The full year's investigation of natural events and cycles help teachers incorporate inquiry-based teaching and learning into the curriculum.