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Collaborative, online projects are one of the most exciting ways to motivate students. Get students involved with posting project on the web, emailing other students or experts, discussing issures on threaded discussion, and many more creative ways. There are thousands of projects to join or cre...

This is a great resource for ideas for student PBL projects (Student Projects: Student Projects, New Work, Best Work, Grade Level Links) as well as teacher resource links.The Pocantico Hills Central School District was named one of 320 schools across the United States as a 2008 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon School.

In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

Site with Science fair project ideas and supporting resources. Students can narrow down possible projects based on their interests. Experiments are labeled according to difficulty.

This website lays out the framework for completing Project Based Learning projects. Teachers are assisted through identifying learning, constructing assessments, designing activities, designing the process, and planning for management. The site provides a lot of direction for integrating technology in the classroom.

Students around the world study a local water habitat. They collect data, a suggested list is provided, and share their findings with others. The idea is to promote understanding of the various impacts on water habitats and to take action to improve and sustain quality habitats based on scientific understandings. This project includes mentoring from a university environmental scientist.

Commonly used in classrooms lacking LCD projection ability, this piece of hardware makes it possible to project images from a computer to a television. iMicro supports resolutions up to 1280 x 1024, ands it works with both Mac and PC. Images can be cropped and enlarged for better viewing.

Online resources for project-based learning lesson plans.

This website would be great to use for the animal habitat projects that we did last year in fourth grade. It also has lots of information just on animals where you could use to do animal research for a project.

Great space project ideas I could use in my classroom for a space unit where students are making galaxies and gases out of food and also art work.

Very interesting project that well help students make personal connections to historical events. Students interview family or friends about life experiences related to world or local history. It is interesting to read what students in other parts of the world have written about events we are familiar with. I would love to see them organize the family stories by events as well as countries.

Educators employ project learning to explore science and history together. Curriculum is designed to meet ISTE standards.

This article talks about tips in integrating technology according to NETS-S/ISTE standards and how some projects went about achieving a high level of technology integration.

The Wacom Bamboo is a cool pen tablet that allows one to "draw," so to speak, directly onto the computer with the virtual pen. You can also manipulate objects with it. Great for art classes and graphic-oriented projects

This article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

Students began by studying biomes then divided into groups of five. Each student in the group drew one of the five major biomes. Using books, cds, and the internet they had to find out the physical features, wildlife, vegetation, climate, and problems confronting their biome. Each person in the group contributed information, video footage taken at the zoo or aquarium, and additional graphics when needed to teach others about their chosen biome. The project was put together in iMovie and shared with all students in the class.

These videos, provided by the Apple Learning Interchange, provide a short snippet about a particular topic (in this case, the changes humans cause on animal habitats) and then launch into a multifaceted lesson. Teachers have a purpose, learning activities, resources, and examples of student projects to use to guide them through the provided lessons. Standards are clearly represented through an "Evidence of Learning" section (with rubrics) as well as NETS and 21st Century Learning Skills Alignments sections. Teachers can use many available photos and interviews during the lesson, as well.

Lesson: Students from around the world can share essays on what morals are important to them and respond to the essays of others.

Student-driven projects, enhanced by technology, launch kindergartners on their way to lifelong learning.