K-12 Projects Web Tour
Click through the following sites, and view each briefly, to appreciate the broad variety
of real world problem-solving project models, which also build Internet collaborative skills.
Many include online experts and mentors!
- IEARN
www.iearn.org
Review the 96 page book of International K12 projects which you can download at http://www.iearn.org/projects/projectbook.htm
IEARN is the world's largest K12 project-based Internet supported learning network. Piloted in 1988 with 12 schools in NY and 12 in Moscow, the network has grown to about 25,000 schols in 109 countries with about 1 million participatns engaged in more than 150 projects in 30 languages which have been designed and facilitated by teachers and students to fit their curriculum needs. Projects www.iearn.org/projects See also their Professional development handbook http://www.iearn.org/professional/prof_handbook.html
- Global Schoolhouse Projects Directory
http://www.gsn.org/project/index.html
The Global Schoolhouse offers extensive online resources
for educators, including the Internet Project Registry, a
resource of projects focused on "life-long learning" via the
Internet.
- Houghton Mifflin Project Watch
http://eduplace.com/projects/index.html
- KIDLINK Special Projects
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/projects.html
- MidLink Mag Projects
http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/
- U.S. Government Kid’s Projects Sites
http://www.codetalk.fed.us/planet/government.html
Wow! Must SEE!
- NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov
Wonderful Space resources
- Teams K12 Professional Development Resources
http://teams.lacoe.edu
Resources by topic, specifically for K12 teachers!!
- Pitsco Project Listings
http://www.pitsco.com/p/Respages/collab.html
Another great listing!
- Journey North Animal Migrations.
http://www.learner.org/jnorth
Announcing Journey North, an annual Internet-based learning
adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife
migration and seasonal change. Beginning on Groundhog's
Day (Feb. 2nd) students will travel northward with spring as it
sweeps across the continent of North America. With global
classmates and state-of-the-art computer technology, they'll
predict the arrival of spring from half a world away.
- Sites Alive!
http://www.sitesalive.com
Exceptional K12 projects! Must See!
- Epals
http://www.epals.com
- Learning Resource Center
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/lrs
Welcome to the Univ. of Illinois' Learning Resource Server
(LRS). Online Colleges courses available. This is a "hot spot"
for quality resources, webbed courses, and articles from Dr.
Judi Harris and other leaders in online education. The LRS
provides you with a "knowledge space" that links you to some
of the most exciting uses of technologies for learning on the
Internet.
- Global Online Adventure Learning (2nd site)
http://www.goals.com
- Adventure Online
http://www.adventureonline.com