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Purpose of Today's Workshop

Today's workshop will serve as an introduction to various unique and compelling Internet resources, particularly in the areas of science and mathematics. Participants will learn how to get in touch with on-line experts, how to subscribe to a listserv, how to find and participate in Internet-based collaborative projects, and how to find keypals. 

Consulting Experts in the Field

One simple way to incorporate the Internet into classroom lessons is to utilize experts in appropriate fields to answer your students' toughest questions.

• CIESE Ask an Expert Page
• Pitsco's Ask an Expert
• All-Experts.com

Examples of Collaborative Projects

• 1995 Water Sample Project

• Global Sun /Temperature Project- CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) Find out how proximity to the globe affects average daily temperature and hours of sunlight. 
• Discussion Area
• Human Genetics Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What traits are dominant?
• Discussion Area
• International Boiling Point Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What causes a pot of water to boil?
• Discussion Area

Other Collaborative Projects

• Mind's Eye Monster Project (Grades 1 through 5)
• First Grade, First Grade, What do you see? (Grade 1)  Finish the sentence, “I see (choose a local landmark) looking at me.” 
• How do we measure up? (Grade 1) Calculate the average amount of growth for a 1st grader.
• Square of Life - CIESE Project - (Grades 1 through 5) How does your school yard environment compare to others around the world?
• Online School yard Experiments & Activities - (Grades 4 & up) Share you experiment results with other classes.
• Global Grocery List - (All ages) Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
• International Boiling Point Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What causes a pot of water to boil?
• The Noon Day Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) Work with students around the world to calculate the circumference of the earth.
• Math Forum's Problem of the Week - (All ages)
• Mathematics Enrichment (All Ages) Submit student answers to monthly math challenges. 
• Mighty M&M Math Experiment (All Ages) Mighty m&m Math teaches fractions and percentages.
• Counting Car Colors (Grades 3 through 8) The goals of the project are to develop skills in comparing,observing,

hypothesizing, graphing and communicating.
• Human Genetics Project -CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What traits are dominant?
• Global Water Sampling Project-CIESE Project -(Grades 7 & up) Compare water sampling results.
• Roadkill '99 -(All grades) Learn about scientific monitoring and the hazards to wildlife.
• Acid Rain - (Grades 7 & up) Teacher developed project :  Does your local power plant increase the amount of acid rain in your town?
• Sunergy for the New Millennium - (Grades 7 & up) Unique way to study heat transfer and solar energy as an alternative energy source.
• Bugscope - (All ages) Gain access to a scanning electron microscope

Finding Collaborative Projects and Partners on the Web

• The CIESE Collaborative Project, Listserv, and Keypals Web Page

Finding Keypals

• e-PALS
• Web66: International School Website Registry

Subscribing to a Mailing List

• Instructions for Subscribing to the CIESE ListServ
• List of Educational Listservs- Good ones on this list are: MIDDLE-L, EDTECH and EDNET.
• More Educational Listservs- More of the same.
• HILITES Mailing List-One of the the best mailing lists for finding out about K-12 projects.
• Classroom Connect's Mailing List-Good listserv to be on for finding out about projects as well as other K-12 information.

Publishing Student Work On-Line

• Endangered Species Project
• Investigating an Ecosystem: The Seashore
• Monica the Monarch Butterfly
• Cyber-Fair
• Manhattan Project - Interdisciplinary Project studying nuclear power
• The Modern Presidency - US Presidents Social Studies Report
• The National Student Research Center - Publish your classroom research project
• Example of Research Report
• Publishing Links for Science
• Publishing Links for Language Arts
• Online Art Projects and Galleries

Developing a Collaborative Project

• The CIESE "Steps to Developing a Collaborative Project" Web Page