Students and teachers worldwide have found many benefits to participation in online projects. Not only do students meet curriculum standards through research, data collection and interpretation, shared writing, and other activities, but they often learn valuable collaboration skills, as well as cultural awareness.
In this exhibit you'll learn about how K-12 students and teachers from throughout the country are participating in Web-based projects that engage them in such diverse challenges as tracking the annual migration of the Monarch Butterfly and designing and building space-age tools and equipment. With their teachers as guides, students learn how to direct their own study -- they create project schedules, collect and analyze data, and apply math and science concepts to real-world projects. As important, through the integration of e-mail and Web-based chats and bulletin boards, they're able to work with and learn from students and adults from across the country and around the world.
Photos courtesy of (clockwise from top left): Kristi Rennebohm Franz, Annenberg/CPB, The Space Day Foundation, The JASON Project
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