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Newest Projects
These links have been obtained as a result of the ILT Leadership Institute's Partnership with Cuyahoga Community College and the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology
  • New for 2003-4 School Year
  • Dates and current Savvy Cyber Projects, All of The Savvy Projects,   (Stevens' CIESE new page of other collaborative projects)
    • The CIESE team is currently disseminating information about its Spring 2002 online collaborative K-12 science education projects. These projects are run in cooperation with a U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant.  These educational collaborative projects afford students from various parts of the country or the world an opportunity to work together to solve problems and conduct real world scientific investigations. Projects include Global Water Sampling Project, Global Sun Temperature Project, International Boiling Point Project, Human Genetics Project, and the Square of Life Study in local and global environments.
  • Digital Monark Watch from Pathfinder Science
  • Other Butterfly Projects OnLine
  • The Rainforest Project project developed and managed by Montclair College of Science and Mathematics
  • Other Rainforest Projects:
    1. Another Rainforest project on line, NASA's PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE Spring '98 project
    2. JASONXV: Rainforests at the Crossroads; from the  JasonProject.org
    3. JASON X: Rainforests: A Wet & Wild Adventure

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    The ILTLI's list of Projects on line

    Current Savvy Cyber Teacher Projects
    CIESE / Alliance+ Project links: a sampling of the SAVVY Cyber Teacher Internet in K-12 Education Materials and weekly curriculum from the Alliance Project:
  • Their collection of projects
  • Real Time Data Internet Based Projects page.
  • Stevens Institute of Technology science & math sites
  • real time data gathering resources
    • CWRU's Jason Page and JASONXV Workshop Links;
  • sponsored by The JASON Project
  • last year's  JasonXIV Workshop Links;
    • Miles to go before I sleep...a journey on the Underground RailRoad
    It is 1850 and you are part of a small group of fellow runaways trying to make your way north to Canada through Ohio.....
    Footsteps To Freedom Traveling the Underground Railroad©
    A history research project for grades 3-7.
    Fathom Expeditions Explore Antarctica
    Bridging the Watershed,  learn how to  identify plants and macroinvertebrates and to follow an anadromous fish in its  migration....K-12
    Footsteps to Freedom Traveling the Underground Railroad ©
    Albatross Project, Track Abatross's in realtime!  Track Bird Migrations in RealTime! Birding links (ornithology...)
    Monarchs, Moths & More! Track, monitor, research migrations, habitats, etc:
    Lake Erie/Pt. Pelee Monarch Reports: The Wonders, a migratory calendar &  Sept. 2002 report,
    Monarch Watch Online!
    The University of Kansas, Dept. of Entomology and the University if Minnesota Department of Ecology
    Butterflies, Moths & Gypsy Moths of North America. Electronic resources on Butterflies & Moths; and The Children's Butterfly Site. Yukon Butterflies
    KanCRN sponsors Ozone Data which is instrumental in monitoring milkweed concentrations, a direct relationship to Monarch concentrations, which they track through their Digital Monarch Watch!  Teachers register your class now!
    Journey North, Tracking animals as they migrate.
    Track Swans migrating from Alaska to California!
    NASA's AstroVenture
    Students in grades 5-8 are transported to the future where they role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and build a planet  with the necessary characteristics for human habitation.
    Global SchoolNet Foundation's Registry to Projects
    provides links to numerous projects as well as steps to developing a collaborative project and posting it at their site.  Subscribe to their listserv, hilites to receive news about current projects.
    NASA's Passport to Knowledge
    A collaboration with the NSF and NASA, find links to current and past online projects:  Live from Antarctica; Live from The Hubble Space Telescope; Live from Mars; Live from Antarctica 2;  Live from the Rainfores; Live from the Poles; and for 1999 Interactive Now!  Live from the Sun.
    NASA Quests:  Students & teachers can participate in interactive Internet projects & also communicate with science experts through "Quest," a free service sponsored by NASA.  Quest projects include...
  • Space Team Online, which involves the space shuttle, space station, & research with people in space.
  • Aero Design Team Online, which looks at various  aeronautics topics -- wind tunnels, simulators, supercomputers, flight research, air safety, &  technology.
  • Women of NASA, which profiles women aeronautics experts as role models for young girls.
  • Mars Team Online, which explores Mars & missions to the red planet.
    • Projects include email Q&A, real-time Internet audio/video  programs, biographies, field journals, lesson plans, kid publishing, online collaborations, background, photos, & more.
    For more information -- including a "getting started" guide, a listserv for teachers using Quest, & a story about student  volunteers (who now get paid) -- please see:

    http://quest.arc.nasa.gov
    http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive
    http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/common/fall_98.html
    Loogootee Indiana's Loogootee Elementary West project pages, including some primary age projects:
    Web Projects, their own projects their part in the Minds Eye Monster Project, as well as the famous Minds Eye Monster Project,we link to with the SAVVY Cyber Teacher Course at the ILT.
     Surfing the ABCs, a special K-1 internet project!
    Exploring the GLOBE Program:
    Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from over 7,000 schools in more than 80 countries are working with research scientists to learn more about our planet.
    Completed Expedition!  A Cyber Field Trip to the Galapagos Islands
    Scientific American Frontiers sponsored a cyber field trip to the Galapagos Islands from Dec. 6-13, 1998. You can visit the now completed expedition  which investigateed the islands' intriguing species and conducted scientific research projects in the region.
    The Ultimate Collaborative Project! (concluded in 2000, but very interesting information to build upon!)
    World Flight
    On September 12, 2000 pilots Chris Wall and Dan Dominguez took off on the general aviation adventure of a lifetime. They are flying around the world in an Aero Commander 560E called "Dreamcatcher" as part of a mission to bring the world to 23 million students who are following the adventure over the Internet.
    An interactive and cultural journey aboard the tall ship Picton Castle!
    Quest Project Web Site: http://quest.classroom.com/america2000/splash.asp
    On AmericaQuest, our online audience will guide the team as they seek to discover the answers to the great mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Anasazi and the Ancient Pueblo Native Americans.
    On going Global Projects
    SchoolWorld's List of Projects on line.  (SchoolWorld Internet Education)
    Center for Great Lakes Evironmental Education
    Learning Outfitter's Adventure Online, current projects as well as previous expeditions.
    NickNacks Steps to participating in and designing a collaborative project
    as well as numerous projects online.
    A sample of one of their magnificent projects, World Sailing Voyage
    Global School Net plus their Internet Registry of Projects and Collaborative Projects
    Visit the GSN pages to sign up for their listserv "hilites", a mailing of on-going projects.
    This is an example of one of GSN's collaborative project.  The Ideal World Through The Eyes of A Child '98 from Yaroslov, Russia.   Interested Institute participants see Mike for the latest projects listed on the GSN listserv.
     
    The Mind's Eye Monster Project
    Students try to communicate an original monster image into another child's mind using writing skills and technology.
    Flat Stanley
    Amelia Earhart's .... concluded in 1997,  maintained through 1999...
    Link to projects on line
    Where in the World is Roger?
     
    Sites Alive! Communicate with kids "in the field"
    Globalearn Expeditions: Past, Current & Future
    World Kids Voyage
    The Jane Goodall Institute
     
    EarthDay
    CREATING MOMENTS THAT LET EARTH TEACH: THE EARTH DAY ACTIVITY YOU CAN DO AND SHARE.
     
    Global Projects
    Explorers of the West Sketchbook Series
    Alaska Family
    Antarctica1
    Antarctica2
     
     
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