A Student's Perspective on World War II
Students work with students in other countries to compare the World War II information each country's textbooks contain.(Ongoing)
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
Pen Pal Letters to Soldiers Overseas
Students write letters to soldiers overseas with correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Students learn facts about the geography of the area where the pen pal is located and about the pen pal.(Ongoing)
GRADE LEVEL: 3-5
A Summer to Remember: The First Olympics of the New Millennium
We are fast approaching the start of another Summer Olympics. However, this is not just any Summer Olympics. This is the first Summer Olympics of the New Millennium. To help us prepare for this event, as well as reflect on the accomplishments of those before us, let's take a closer look at the Summer Olympics! (9/1/00-10/30/00)
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Fairy Tale Cyber Dictionary
Classrooms choose a fairy tale to create illustrations and sentences for each letter of the alphabet.
(3/1/00-12/31/00)
GRADE LEVEL: K-3
White Barn Press
White Barn Press is a showcase of student writing, project-based learning, and classroom homepages published in cooperation with contributing classroom teachers.
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Laws of Life
Students write short essays about their values, or "Laws" in life. They post these essays to an online newsgroup, where they can read and react to the essays of others. (11/31/99-5/31/00)
GRADE LEVEL: All
The MindsEye Monster Exchange Project: Monsters Made to Order!
The dog is brown. Does this sound like your students' idea of a descriptive sentence? The MindsEye Monster Exchange Project is ready to change that! A unique activity that has students writing descriptive paragraphs, this project is fast becoming an integral part of the language arts curriculum of many classrooms. What is the best part? Students get to use their imaginations to design their very own monsters! Included: Comments from teachers across the grades who have seen the educational value in this well-thought-out online project.
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Apple and Pumpkin PIE (Poetry Is Exciting)!
One teacher's successful "Apple a Day" Internet project has spawned a new project. Join teacher Susan Silverman in the "Pumpkin Patch" this year. Getting involved is as easy as pie!--
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
The Write Site
The Web site is an interactive language arts and journalism project for middle school students and teachers.
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
Monster Exchange
Students try to communicate an original monster image into another child's mind using learned writing skills and technology.
GRADE LEVEL: K-6
Join The Read In!on April 24!
More that 200,000 students are expected to join this year's Fifth Annual Read In!, where they'll chat "live" with two dozen renowned authors and illustrators. Included: Information on how you can join in the fun!
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Decisions, Decisions Online
Bring contemporary issues alive in your classroom with the new Internet version of the award-winning Decisions, Decisions series. Decisions, Decisions Online will stimulate discussions that start inside your classroom and continue outside of it, as students role-play legislators faced with critical situations.
GRADE LEVEL:5-10
The News of the Century --- Reported by *Your* Students!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The News of the Century contest is in
full swing. And it's not too late for your students to share in the fun
and the learning. Find out how one class's participation spanned the
curriculum and opened students' eyes to the world. Included: Students
tell what they thought was so great about the project!
GRADE LEVEL: 4-12
Highwired National Edition
Highwired National Edition is a news site that showcases the writing of high-school journalists nationwide and around the world. The site also offers space for schools to publish school newspapers on-line and create special Web sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and individual classrooms to publish student writing on the Web!
GRADE LEVEL: 7-12
New York Times Learning Network
The New York Times Learning Network provides an educational service for grade 6-12 teachers, students, and parents. The site has a set of daily lesson plans that help to integrate daily news articles into the classroom curriculum, as well as quizzes, links, features, and an On This Day... section.
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
Little Planet Times
The Little Planet Times is a newspaper written by and for kids.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Think!
This website has logic test questions, links to opinion and editorial news pages, Letters to the Editors from English newspapers around the world and resources to discussion groups and pages.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
Fairy Tale and Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary
Whether you’re a technology nerd or a trembling "newbie," your students can participate in the Fairy Tale and Folk Tale Cyber Dictionary project -- an activity even kindergarten students will enjoy. Included: Suggestions for adapting the project for older students. (Ongoing)
[ Language Arts, Fine Arts ]
GRADE LEVEL: K-3
Young Authors and Artists Collaborate on Humanitarian Project
Parents at a Washington state elementary school organized a Share a Story student enrichment project that promoted the literacy and humanitarian goals of the school. The students shipped more than 1,000 books to schools in the South Pacific. Among the books were 115 the students had written themselves! What they got in return was a lot of satisfaction --- and a big surprise!
GRADE LEVEL: 2 - 6
The Eagle Watch
The Eagle Watch Web site, created collaboratively by students at St. George's Day School and at Dyersburg Intermediate School in Dyersburg, Tennessee, focuses on the "life and legend" of the bald eagle.
GRADE LEVEL: Pre-K - 6
Fairy Tale Cyber Dictionary
Classrooms choose a fairy tale to create illustrations and sentences for each letter of the alphabet.
(3/1/00-12/31/00)
GRADE LEVEL: K-3
Encourage Student Writing -- Publish on the Web!
Publishing student writing encourages the reluctant writer, strengthens kids' self-confidence, rewards interest, and promotes a positive attitude toward literature. If your school is like most, however, you lack an easy and effective way of publishing your students' work. Now, help is as close as a mouse click away! Today, Education World writer Glori Chaika explores opportunities to publish student writing --and teacher writing-- on the Web.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
The Global Novel
Classes participate in an online project where each class writes a chapter for evaluation and addition to a novel that will be completed collaboratively by the group. (Ongoing)
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
Murder in Virginia: A Creative Conspiracy
The year is 1830, and an old woman is reminiscing about a murderous event that occurred when she was a young girl living in colonial Virginia. Can you guess who done it? As the mystery unfolds, we slowly learn the truth. The story is actually being told by more than 26 authors -- and each author is a clever and cunning high school student! Investigate the mystery -- and delve into thirteen activities designed to connect the crime to the curriculum.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
White Barn Press
White Barn Press is a showcase of student writing, project-based learning, and classroom homepages published in cooperation with contributing classroom teachers.
GRADE LEVEL: 2-8
Zuzu
Zuzu is an e-zine featuring the artwork, writing, and opinions of young people.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-12
Word Dance
Word Dance features a quarterly magazine of children's writing, poetry, and artwork. Kids will also enjoy the games and links to other sites.
GRADE LEVEL: K-8
A Teacher's Guide to Getting Students' Work Published by Glori Chaika
Glori Chaika, an English teacher, shares tips for getting student-writing published. Chaika's students at Slidell (Louisiana) Junior High School are among the most-published kids in the United States.
GRADE LEVEL: K-12
Looking Glass Gazette
The Looking Glass Gazette is published quarterly both online and in print to promote reading and writing for preschool through eighth grade students.
GRADE LEVEL: Pre-K-8
Middlezine Magazine
This site has a good amount of middle school children's writings in many different categories.
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
The Young Writers Club
An interesting concept with loads of writings by children.
GRADE LEVEL: 3-10
