Pointers to Individual Projects


About MayaQuest '96

For the second year in a row, students anywhere in the world can join a team of explorers biking through Mexico and Central America in search of the ancient Mayans.
AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP
Architectural Challenge
Ask an Engineer - SWE Pittsburgh
Ask Dr. Math
Earth Science
Activity where students can explore the dynamic earth, in particular fault movements.
Electronic Emissary Home Page
Students are matched with mentors, who are subject matter and pedagogical experts, from around the world for teleconferencing.
Elementary Problem of the Week
Geometry Forum: Project of the Month
Take the challenge. Try the Forum's monthly contest.
Global Change
Study the global change and investigate the rain forest.
Global Classroom
Home Page of VolcanoWorld
Home of Ask a Volcanologist.
Internet Geometry Hunt
Search the Internet for answers to questions about math and mathematicians.
JASON Project
Students will concentrate on exlporing Iceland, Yellowstone National Park, and the environment, near their own homes. JASON VII includes dynamic earth, animal migrations and the movement of people.
Journey North Home Page
The project combines email and the Web with satellite technology, giving students the rare opportunity to follow dozens of species as they migrate north.
KIDLINK TOURISM PROJECT
KIDPROJ ASCII DESIGN PROJECT
KIDPROJ Hunt for Country Capitals Game
KIDPROJ Inventions Project
Every time you figure out a new way of doing something or change something to fit your needs, you become an inventor!! Share your ideas so we can learn from ome another.
KIDPROJ LIFE IN THE OCEAN
KIDPROJ Money Project
Here you can expect to see many languages spoken, but all about the same thing, money - we hope this will encourage all of us to learn as much about one another as we can.
KIDPROJ Spanish Story & Poetry Project
Live from Antartica 2
This is a Passport to Knowledge project. They will return to the ice again this year and will focus on marine biology and interaction of oceans, ice seals, and penguins.
Live from Mars
In 1996 NASA will launch two missions to Mars. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft will be launched in November and Mars Pathfinder spacecraft will lift-off in December returning a wealth of new science data.
Landmark Game
Choose a landmark anywhere in the world. Compose nine clues and share them with other participants. The school which guesses the most landmarks wins the game.
MathMagic!
Medicinal Plants Project
MidLink Magazine
MidLink Magazine , the electronic magazine for kids in the middle grades--generally ages 10 to 15. Browse through our interactive space to enjoy art and writing that will link middle school kids all over the world.
Monster Project
Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading, writing and fine art skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from a variety of schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster.
Surfing the Salad Bowl
The Global Grocery List Project
The Refrigerator
Trip To Antarctica
David Hess who works in Antarctica nine months a year converses with children about living on the ice. This is a KIDLINK project.
Through Our Eyes, another Kidproj project
US Geological Survey: Ask-A-Geologist
Students and classes can direct questions on earth sciences to geologists.
Visiting Math Mentors
Visiting Math Mentors" will volunteer for one or more weeks to reply to solutions submitted by elementary students to companion project Elementary Problem of the Week.
Virtual Quilt
Volcano!
What would you do to prepare foran emergency created by an erupting volcano.


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