Online Projects

Postcard Trading Club	Schools from all over the USA and the world are invited to mail a postcard from their region to Easton Elementary School.
Blue Print Earth	"Blue Print Earth," will help students to understand a wide variety of environmental issues.
Poet's Corner	Students will be able to express themselves creatively when they write a variety of poems every few weeks
Our Bulldog's Adventures	Bulldog Ike, will leave a classroom in Jersey City, New Jersey to visit classrooms throughout the United States and beyond!
ExplorA-Pond	Experience a simulated pond, take a virtual tour of an outdoor classroom.
Monster Exchange	Students try to communicate an original monster image into another child's mind using writing skills and technology.
Skittles Challenge 2002	We believe that GREEN is the most frequently seen colour in Skittles - but don't tell your students that.
Holiday Greetings Exchange	What better way to express the joy of the season and friendship among students than to exchange artist Holiday Greetings from class to class around the world through e-mail?
Participate in Christmas	Help Santa and his elves update their inventory of family Christmas traditions.

Postcard Trading Club

Project Author: Shawn Michael Weatherman <trektech@bellsouth.net>
Project Title: Postcard Trading Club
Project Begin & End Dates: Feb/14/00 to Dec/30/03

Project Summary:
Schools from all over the USA and the world are invited to mail a postcard from their region to Easton Elementary School. Our school will mail a postcard from the Piedmont Region of North Carolina, USA back to your school.
Information is available at: http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/easton/postcard.html
This is a fun way to learn geography and to share your region with students and teachers from around the world.

Project Details

Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: Arts, Community Interest, History and Social Studies
Technologies Used: Email

Full Project Description:

Dear Teacher,
This is a message from Easton Elementary School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Please consider joining our Postcard Trading Club.
Information is available at: http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/easton/postcard.html
Also, please visit our main school web-site at http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/easton/index.html
Thank you for your time !!
Shawn Michael Weatherman
Educational Technology Specialist
Easton Elementary School
Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Schools

Objectives:
1. To foster an understanding of communication with participants from around the globe.
2. To create a bulletin board for Social Studies and Geography containing postcards from around the USA and the world.
3. To increase regional awareness of our own area's resources and attractions.
4. To faciliate the sharing of knowledge by becoming experts about our own community.

Project Registration Information

Project Email Address: trektech@bellsouth.net
Registration Acceptance Dates: 2/14/00 to 12/30/03
Number of Classrooms: 1000
Age Range: 7 to 14 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL: http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/easton/postcard.html
Registration Instructions:
Send a postcard from your area to:
Easton Elementary School
Star Trek Technology Lab
734 East Clemmonsville Circle
Winston-Salem, NC 27107
You will receive a postcard from our regional area.

Project Contact Information

Shawn Michael Weatherman - mailto:trektech@bellsouth.net
mailto:sweather@easton.wsfcs.k12.nc.us
Educational Technology Specialist - Easton Elementary School
http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/easton/index.html
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
USA

Blue Print Earth

Starting on December 1, another stimulating and educationally powerful Kidforum topic, "Blue Print Earth," will help students to understand a wide variety of environmental issues.

Tor Arne Richvoldsen and Indu Varma will serve as moderators. You can read more on this topic, and on our topics for 2001, on the Kidforum schedule page at: http://www.kidlink.org/KIDFORUM/schedule.htm

Poet's Corner

Students will be able to express themselves creatively when they write a variety of poems every few weeks. Poem formats will be changed every few weeks and students will be able to immerse themselves into a variety of different poems.

During the fortnight poems can be emailed to curric@acreekps.vic.edu.au after which they will be collated into an anthology of children's writing and then sent back as File attachments to participating schools, so that children will be able to read poems from around the world.

Children from around the world will be able to share and write a variety poems and develop creativity. This project enables children to have a world wide audience to publish their work for.

Our Bulldog's Adventures

Our bulldog, Ike, will leave our classroom in Jersey City, New Jersey to visit classrooms throughout the United States and beyond!

Curriculum Area: Community Interest, History and Social Studies, Language, Mathematics, Science, Technology

Our bulldog will leave Jersey City, New Jersey and stay with each participating class for 2 weeks. His goal is to visit classrooms and learn about different neighborhoods, people and plants that grow in rural, suburban and urban areas in the United States and beyond. Participating classes must agree to E-mail me as soon as our bulldog arrives in their classrooms, when he leaves, and at least four other times during his stay, for a total of at least 6 E-mail up dates. Information about your school's neighborhood, including whether it is urban, rural or suburban and information about plants from your local area or from classroom activities involving plants must be included in some of your updates. Any other information you wish to share with us is, of course, also welcome. We would also like photos showing some of our bulldog's activities during his stay. The pictures will not be returned to you. (Please do not include your students in the pictures you send.) Our bulldog is relaltively small and must travel First Class, Priority Mail. I also request that each class enclose a picture, small item or a postcard that represents their town or city.

Participants must agree to adhere to our bulldog's schedule so that he will arrive on time to his next classroom.

To integrate technology into other areas of the curriculum and share information about plants and neighborhoods from various areas of the world.

ExplorA-Pond

Experience a simulated pond, take a virtual tour of an outdoor classroom. Complete pond math and pond science activities, publish your adopted pond photos online, or chat with other K-6 students interested in pond stuff.

Registered classes can publish photos, descriptions, and findings on-line in telecollaboration with other K-6 classrooms. The simulated pond, virtual tour, lesson plans, pond discussion board, and related internet links are available to everyone. Join in the fun of pond math and pond science with classrooms from Wales to Florida. Publish your results at this web site and help create a world wide collection of "adopted" ponds.

Students will use telecommunications to collaborate on scientific and mathematical problem solving. Students will apply math and science concepts to the world around them.

Teachers will find a convenient Internet resource to aid their classroom instruction.

For those classes wishing to publish their pond online a special password (free of charge) is required.

Monster Exchange

ATTENTION: K-12 Cyberteachers and students!

The Monster Exchange Project is very excited to announce that the Fall 2001 Monster Exchange Project is ready for YOUR classroom. Join the FREE project that thousands of students' worldwide have participated in!

Signup begins immediately at... http://www.monsterexchange.org and is only open to the first 500 schools!

What is THE MONSTER PROJECT?

"Students try to communicate an original monster image into another child's mind using writing skills and technology."

PROJECT COORDINATOR'S NOTE: This project depends on the use of the World Wide Web.

Everything you want and need to know such as: "What is the Monster Exchange Project?, What does the project offer to the student and teacher?, How does my school, classroom, or "home schooler" participate?, Do I need to be a computer genius to participate?, and, "What equipment do I need to have?" can be found at the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section: http://www.monsterexchange.org/about/about_faq.htm

To successfully participate in this project, Internet tools such as a chat room, mailing list, and partner matching, have been designed to help make teachers and students successful. Other helpful tools can be seen at the above web address. Knowledge of HTML is not required to publish the monster galleries or for any other features of this project.

Please note, however, that you do need to be able to save student drawings in either GIF of JPG format to successfully upload drawings to the Monster Galleries. There is information on the site detailing instructions on exactly what to do. You also need to make sure you have either Netscape 4.7or higher or Internet Explorer 4.0 to participate. Please read the project information pages before committing your classes to the project.

Dates: Registration begins immediately. The project starting date is October 1, 2001, and continues through January 15, 2002, the closing date for additions to the monster galleries. Please check to make sure these dates do not conflict with other classroom activities before registering.

Online automated signup for the project is accomplished by logging on to the Monster Exchange at http://www.monsterexchange.org and clicking on the link called "join". Just fill in the blanks and click
"sign me up." You will receive an automated response with your new username for logging in to the web site.

Grade Levels: K-12

Objectives: to use writing process/skills to communicate a drawing of student-created monster into detailed written descriptions that students from cooperating schools read to duplicate the original drawing as closely as 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 Monster Galleries so that participants can see the resulting drawings for comparison. Evaluation of student work: write a final email message to the partner class discussing the differences between each of the student's work.

PLEASE NOTE: Illustration content drawn by the students should be appropriate for cross cultures and suitable for children of all ages. Example: Illustrations with blood and weapons may be inappropriate for some children.

Peace,

Susy Calvert
Coordinator/Teacher of Gifted
Maxwell Hill Gifted Center
1001 Maxwell Hill Road
Beckley, WV 25801
001-304-256-4619/4599

Skittles Challenge 2002

Project Information

Project Author: Jennifer Wagner <jwagner@crossroadsschool.org>

Project Title: SKITTLES CHALLENGE - 2002

Project Begin & End Dates: 18/Jan/02 to 08/April/02

Project Summary:

Join us in an online project with Skittles Candies.

We believe that GREEN is the most frequently seen colour in Skittles - but don't tell your students that.

Take the challenge with us - and lets all find out together if we are right or not!

Project Details

Project Level: Basic

Curriculum Area: Health and Physical Education, Language, Mathematics, Technology

Technologies Used: Email

Full Project Description:

Either buy a bar of skittles per student or buy a bag per class.
Open the bag/bar and group into colours.
Graph your results.
Send us the results
View the webpage for daily updates!
Enjoy!

Objectives:
Fun!
Graphing Skills!
Communication with schools!
Beginning ideas for science fair projects!

Project Registration Information

Project Email Address: jwagner@crossroadsschool.org

Registration Acceptance Dates: 20/Nov/01 to 01/Feb/02

Number of Classrooms: No Limit

Age Range: 5 to 19 years

Target Audience: Anyone

Registration Instructions:
If you would like to view our current online project - please visit

Holiday Greetings Exchange

Project Information

Project Author: Betty Jo English <benglish@whro.net>

Project Title: Holiday Greetings Exchange

Project Begin & End Dates: 12/01/01 to 12/17/01

Project Summary: Holiday Greeting Exchange - What better way to express the joy of the season and friendship among students than to exchange artist Holiday Greetings from class to class around the world through e-mail?

Project Details

Project Level: Basic

Curriculum Area: Arts, History and Social Studies, Information Technology, Language, Technology, Vocational Education

Technologies Used: Email

Project Sponsor: None

Full Project Description: This is a quick, easy, almost painless project for the holidays. Not a lot of work but with big returns.

Here is how it works:

1. Each class prepares a class Holiday Greeting Card. It can be an art project of your choosing as long as you can get a picture of it onto your computer. If you want to be really industrious, you can have each of your students create a card and send a different one to each class on the list. Either way, you only send one card to each school.

2. Send me the following information: MUST BE RECEIVED BY: December 1, 2001 to be included in the list. School Name: City/State/Country: Teacher's Name: E-mail address: Grade Level:

3. I will make a mailing list for all participants. Do not wait until you receive the mailing list to be creating your greeting card. Participants web site will be at http://www.angelfire.com/va2/bjenglish/HOLIDAYLIST.html

4. Each class will send a message to the list and attach their Card. THESE WILL NEED TO BE SENT NO LATER THAN December 17, 2001 since schools will be dismissing for the holidays. This way we will each receive one card from each class on the list.

5. All the cards will be posted on the web. You can see last year's exchange there. http://www.marshall-es.marshall.k12.tn.us/jobe/greetings/greeting.html

If you need help in preparing your pictures to email, you can find tips on reducing the file size on Hazel Jobe's web page.

There is also a link to Graphic Converter there which can be used to convert your pictures to .jpg or .gif. These two formats can be read by any web browser. So try to send the cards in one of these formats.

I look forward to working with each of you to share the joy of the holidays with all of the schools around the world.

Betty Jo English The Pruden Center for Industry and Technology Suffolk, VA 23434

benglish@whro.net

Objectives: To use e-mail to exchange holiday greetings with classrooms around the world.

To use art to express holiday greetings.

Project Registration Information

Project Email Address: benglish@whro.net

Registration Acceptance Dates: 11/05/01 to 12/01/01

Number of Classrooms: Unlimited

Age Range: 5 to 19 years

Target Audience: Anyone

Project URL: http://www.angelfire.com/va2/bjenglish/holiday_greetings.html

Project Contact Information

Betty Jo English - mailto:benglish@whro.net Business Teacher - The Pruden Center for Industry and Technology Suffolk, Virginia US http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Voc-Tech-Centers/pdpruden/pruden.html

Participate in Christmas

The Great Christmas Caper has just begun! Help Santa and his elves update their inventory of family Christmas traditions. Join our class as we learn about gathering data and creating graphs. The project can be found at http://www.thematzats.com/christmascaper/index.html. We hope you will join us!

Cynthia Matzat
matzatc@more.net

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