Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration This spring over 100,000 people will report sightings of plants, animals, and natural spring events to Journey North. Using this collective information, teachers and students can follow the spring migrations of animals, examine the changing vegetation, and monitor signs of the arriving spring: including the ice-outs, leaf-outs, and frog-singings. Extensive resources to help teachers integrate this information into their curriculum are available.
Your students can interact with scientists conducting exciting research in the field. The Jason Project seeks scientists on location around the world and works with them to develop curriculum related to their current projects. The next expedition is headed for the Guaymas Basin to explore hydrothermal vent communities living on the ocean floor; your class is invited to join them.
Let your students learn with help from the scientists at NASA. Online Interactive Projects from NASA supports a number of excellent learning opportunities for teachers and students. Projects include Live from the Rainforest, Aero Design TeamOnline, NeurOn, Women of NASA, Mars Team Online, and Space Team Online.
GlobaLearn mounts live expeditions twice a year to different regions of the world. Each expedition explores the history, traditions, industry, and environment of each community they visit, and post their findings on the Web. Students are invited to correspond with expedition members. Expeditions have been undertaken to Asia, the Black Sea nations, and Brazil. The current expedition is destined for South America.
To enable students to contribute to the health and welfare of the planet and its people is the purpose for which these numerous projects from IEARN (the International Education and Resource Network) are designed. Topics include the arts, humanities, and sciences and are available in both English and Spanish.
That children learn by teaching others is the philosophy of Special Species. Teachers are encouraged to team up with a scientist or naturalist to study a species of plant or animal. Students then write a report and prepare illustrations about what they have learned. The reports are published on the Special Species Web site.
Here's a fun way for students to learn map reading, geographical terms, and cultural and geographical diversity. Geo Game requires participating classes to complete a survey about their geographical location. They then receive a scrambled survey from another class which they must unscramble. This project is suggested for middle to upper elementary grades, but is open to all grade levels.
Where on the Globe is Roger? Roger Williams has spent a couple of years driving around the world in his truck, Bubba, visiting schools and sending reports of his adventures via Internet to children in participating classrooms. At the moment Roger appears to be taking a rest, but this site is still brimming with information about his travels.
