Educational Interface to the Internet: Projects and Lesson Sources

Projects and Lesson Sources

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Structures

University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Department of Education has links and information for a wide variety of online projects.

Academy One
Academy One and the National Public Telecomputing Network have a good listing of projects, mostly with an American flavour.

Internet Education Projects
Internet project listing from various institutions in gopher format. Comes from CoSN.

Internet Project Gopher

U.S. Department of Education WWW Server
This WWW server is provided under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Institutional Communications Network (INet) project, and is managed and operated by the Education Information Resources Division of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI/EIRD).

Education Center of the Global Network Navigator (GNN)
This part of GNN is devoted specifically to education and offers a range of resources for K-12 educators, including a K-8 reading curriculum center, an online magazine to help organize and guide educators to resources, projects and people on the Internet and to provide schools with information on how to integrate online networks and projects in the classroom.

AIMS (Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science) Database
The AIMS Activity Database is a comprehensive listing of all AIMS activities currently in print. The database catalogs the activities by title, subject, course, grade, and book.

Intercultural Email Classroom Connections
The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. Their Web site is an excellent place to begin you search for partner classes, worldwide.

Odyssey of the Mind
A world-wide, nonprofit organization that promotes creative team-based problem solving in a school program for students from kindergarten through college. The program helps students learn divergent thinking and problem solving skills while participating in a series of challenging and motivating activities, both inside and outside their regular classroom curriculum.

Some Statistics Lessons Plans Using the Internet

Newsgroup: k12.ed.maths
Covers teaching methods, student problems, and mathematical mysteries. Often carries news of maths related online projects on the the Internet.

Chance Database.
This site houses a database of materials designed to help teach a new introductory course cooperatively developed by Middlebury, Grinnell, Spelman, University of California-San Diego and Dartmouth. CHANCE is a case-study course based on current events as reported in daily newspapers and current journals.

The ENC Catalogue of Curriculum Resources
Describes a comprehensive, multimedia collection of materials and programs for K-12 mathematics and science education.

Outline for Mathematics
Provides an extensive list of lesson plans for primary and secondary school teachers.

Picture Project Lesson
Created by Joanne Oshiro (joanneo@kalama.doe.hawaii.edu), this lesson plan was put together as a part of a pilot project for the Hawaii Department of Education. It may be copied for classroom use. This is an excellent example of a simple online "exchange" project all educator's new to the Internet will be interested in getting involved with.

Access Excellence
Access Excellence is a national educational program sponsored by the biotechnology industry pioneer, Genentech, Inc., that puts high school biology teachers in touch with their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information through an online network.

Bill Nye, Science Guy
A Web site for one of the most popular science guys on television, Bill Nye. Activities, links to information about the latest episodes, and more.

Connie Mark's Classroom Projects
"I'm Connie Mark and I teach at Waiau Elementary School. We are located in Pearl City, Oahu, which is a suburb of Honolulu. Honolulu is the capital of the state of Hawaii. From the lanai of our school we can see Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial. The Internet is an integral part of my curriculum. Some of the projects that my students and I have participated in can be found on my new Web page!"

Shadows Project
An experiment with shadows. Features lessons on measuring shadows using geometry.

National Internet Projects and Activities in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
A US based web site which provides resources and connections for teachers wanting to participate in online projects.

ENC Catalog of Curriculum Resources
This catalog describes a comprehensive, multimedia collection of materials and programs for K-12 mathematics and science education.

Science Homework.
Does a water drop have skin? Why are bubbles always round? An experiment that examines surface tension will answer those questions. Send your students here for science work they can do away from the classroom, or sample to experiment yourself for use in your classroom.

National Science and Technology Week Activities
This year's NSTW packet showcases activities produced by a range of organizations. These activities are designed to help students -- ranging from preschool through middle school and junior high -- explore new worlds throughout the school year.

The JASON Project
Brings the thrill of exploration and discovery live to students around the world as they participate in an amazing electronic field trip.

Explorer
Offers an extensive collection of math and science curricula. It is being developed jointly by the Great Lakes Collaborative and the University of Kansas UNITE group to engage educators and students in creating and using multimedia resources for active learning and "on time" delivery.

The Earth System Science Community Curriculum
This curriculum serves to facilitate interactions and communications among members of the Earth System Science Community by providing curricula designed to guide student investigations of the Earth system, and access to data, tips, techniques and guides, tools, and expert support.

The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUV) Astrophysics (CEA)
The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUV) Astrophysics (CEA) supports education outreach activities in the areas of K-12 Outreach, Distance Learning, Public and Informal Outreach, and Undergraduate Outreach. Students and teachers are an integral part of the EUVE project. This highly successful NASA mission is studying the last unexplored band of the electromagnetic spectrum -- extreme ultraviolet light.

NASA Online Project
Primarily for K-12 students and teachers. Projects that are listed here specify the participation dates and are updated regularly.

K-12 Internet Project
Education and Lifelong Learning is the basis for the K-12 Internet Project. This project works in cooperation with the NASA Education Office to help educators across the country make effective classroom use of the many NASA projects and data sets available over the Internet.

Other Teacher's Room Resources: Gifted and Talented Resources; School and District Homepages; Education Related WWW Link Pages; Education Related Gopher Sites; Education Related FTP Sites; Education Related Mailing Lists; KeyPal Connections; Educational Technology; Educational Research

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