Collaborative Projects 
The resources below are designed to help you join a project or create your own. Once you make a commitment to a project, remember that the success of a project depends on all participants completing their assigned tasks and returning the requested information in a timely fashion.
Specific Ongoing Projects
The list below contains projects that can be entered at any time.
- Algebra Problem of the Week -- Each week, an algebra problem is posted. Highlighted student solutions are posted in the following week.
- E-Math Mentoring -- lists math mentoring between professionals and students via e-mail.
- Geometry Problem of the Week -- Each week, a high school level geometry problem is posted. Notable answers often get a personal note of praise from Annie Fetter, Student Project Coordinator at the Math Forum, who posts the problems and supplies feedback. Incorrect answers or those needing improvement receive a reply from Annie with suggestions and encouragement to resubmit the answer.
- Global Grocery List -- Students visit their local grocery stores and record the prices of items on the grocery list, then share their prices with other participating classes all over the world. The result is a growing table of current, peer collected data that can be used in math classes. This project is especially good for telecomputing beginners; it has very little structure and no timeline.
- Hewlett-Packard E-mail Mentor Program -- matches HP employees (worldwide) with 5th- through 12th-grade students across the US. The focus of these telementor relationships is to assist students in the areas of math and science.
- MATHCOUNTS -- problem of the week.
- Stocks Quest -- This Stock Market Simulation accommodates group accounts in which students can compete while learning about investing.
- Trigonometry and Calculus Problem of the Week -- Each week, a trigonometry or calculus problem is posted. Highlighted student solutions are posted in the following week.
Sources of Projects
- Data Library -- contains sources of data sharing projects.
- Electronic Emissaries -- the longest running internet-based telementoring and research effort serving K-12 students and teachers around the world. Teams of volunteer teachers, learners, and assistants explore telementoring projects and techniques together.
- Global SchoolNet Projects -- projects from the Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) and other organizations such as I*EARN, IECC, NASA, GLOBE, Academy One, TIES, Tenet, TERC, as well as countless outstanding projects conducted by classroom teachers all over the world. Register your own project here.
- I*EARN Projects -- projects with participants from very diverse geographic locations.
- KIDLINK -- globally focused, e-mail-based projects involve students aged 15 and younger from many different countries.
- Stevens Institute of Technology Collaborative Projects
- The Student Showcase -- publicizes outstanding student projects by posting them on the web. Projects include fractals, tessellations, Mayan arithmetic, the world's largest icosohedron.
- ThinkQuest -- an annual competition for high school students.
Keypal Opportunities
Use the keypal sources below to find partners for your own internet projects.
- ePals Classroom Exchange -- Users can freely search, browse and contact classrooms listed in an online database. In addition, users can add or submit a profile of their own classroom to ECE.
- I*EARN -- Search for other I*EARN participants among the 3,000+ I*EARN schools in over 50 countries--by country, interests, expertise... and add your own information about yourself and the projects you are involved in. You can search for schools by country, student age level, curriculum interest, keywords, as well as for schools which have access to CU-SeeMe capabilities for video-conferencing.
- IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) -- IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
- National Math Trail -- The National Math Trail is an opportunity for K-12 teachers and students to discover and share the math that exists in their own environments. Students explore their communities and create one or more math problems that relate to what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site, along with photos, drawings, sound recordings, videos--whatever can be adapted to the Internet. All submissions will be posted to the site as they are submitted. They will also be indexed according to grade level and math topic and will remain on the site for access by educators, students and parents.
- Online Schoolyard Projects -- Online projects that allow students to, collaboratively or independently, conduct scientific and mathematical investigations in their schoolyards and then submit their collected data using an online form. Each piece of submitted data is then placed on the web page as a chart for the students to study and to download as an Excel spreadsheet. Student comments and communication about their experiences are encouraged. Digital pictures of captured organisms and experimental designs are also wanted for display at this web site
Connected Schools
Listed below are some exemplary school sites created by teachers and students.
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Last update: 16 February 2008
