Collaborative+Projects

Collaborative Projects in Education
====A collaborative project is intended to allow interested individuals (students and teachers) at different institutions to collaborate on research projects / activities in a meaningful way. Indicate appropriate grade levels.====

[|http://www.rockourworld.org**]   ** Bucket Buddies     **  **The MindsEye Monster Exchange Project: Monsters Made to Order!** The Stock Market Game **
 * Rock Our World **
 * An international project that brings students together from around the world through thematic projects with focus on communication, storytelling music, digital filmmaking, and video conferencing. K-12
 *  http://k12science.org/curriculum/bucketproj/     **
 * gr 5-8 Students around the United States and other countries will collect samples from local ponds to answer the question: Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over the world? Participants will identify organisms in a water sample Compare their findings with other participating classes Determine which, if any, of the organisms are the same in other, more distant water sources. Look for relationships and trends in the data collected by all project participants lmcvey
 *  http://www.monsterexchange.org/
 *  A great online tool to encourage kids to creatively write. Students write instructions to build (draw) a monster and after exchanging these directions with one another, other classrooms, or other districts (who are participating) students must draw what they believe the creator described. A neat idea that will help students focus of their writing. These descriptive paragraphs encourage students from across the country to use their imaginations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * http://www.smg2000.org/
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This is an activity that highly motivates students. A math teacher could require graphing of change. Calculating change (decimals calculations) would be daily practice. This would be a cross curricular collaborative activity as students participate as teams. mhamilton

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Global Grocery List  ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Iditarod in the Classroom** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **The Snowy Day** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Classroom Pet Exchange
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://landmark-project.com/ggl/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An international project that brings students together from around the world and share local grocery prices and other data to be combined with all aspects of academics. bmiller
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.iditarod.com/teachers/news/story_480.html
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the official site of the Iditarod that enables a classroom to get to know the musher’s and dogs each year throughout this 1150 mile race.  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> S.Cropper
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/users/title3/snowyday/snow.htm
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really liked this because I tend to think of these projects as very elaborate “productions”. This was very simple. Each participant read the book,  __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Snowy Day. By Ezra Jack Keats.   __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then each class did a class representation of their favorite snowy day activity. Some were graphs, some were slide shows, and all were easy for Kindergarteners to understand. I feel confident that I could do this! LS.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colourful Classrooms **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/pr/GetDetail.cfm?StartRow=1&view=1&projtype=%2Ccurrent%3Ball&sortby=Start%20Date&fAge=10&tAge=12&pID=2819
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colourful Classrooms is an on-line project that aims to create a virtual book according to the Education for All ideals of UNESCO. Students send texts and illustration concerning a day in school. The texts can be created in any genre (essays, poems, causeries, columns, aphorisms, tales) and also all kind of colourful illustration is welcome. One can also imagine a school day of dreams. We can imagine better learning in Colourful Classrooms together! E-mail the project coordinator for registration information. ELehne
 * http://classroom.jc-schools.net/cpe/
 * Classes exchange a stuffed animal via mail. Students take turns taking the pet home. Tales of the pet’s adventures can be shared online and via e-mail with the partner classes. Everything is coordinate through the website and its data base. N.O'Brien
 * Mathlincs Global Collaborative
 * http://mathlincs2.pbwiki.com/
 * This site is a collaboration of 5th and 6th grade students from around the world using a wiki. The site includes collaboration on several different math topics. MEdgar

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 * The Wild Ones
 * [|http://www.thewildones.org]
 * Students and teachers around the world provide information about endangered species in their area. The website aims to educate children about these endangered species and protecting their environment. N.O'Brien
 * ** Global employers **
 * http://globalexplorers.wikispaces.com/
 * This website is set up for the teacher to expand the walls of their classroom and bring the outside world in. Mpoindexter
 * **Rock Our World** (in its 7th year)
 * [|http://www.rockourworld.org]
 * An international project that brings students together from around the world through thematic projects with focus on communication, storytelling music, digital filmmaking, and video conferencing. Melendez.
 * The Quest for Gold
 * http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/16/spiceworld.html
 * With a small group of friends collect two objects (like pencils or squares of paper) of one color, four objects of another color, and six objects of one more color. Place them in a hat and take turns drawing the objects out of the hat, one at a time. No peeking!L.Melendez.
 * Lesson Plan Three of the Curriculum Unit: [|The United States and Europe: From Neutrality to War, 1921-1941]
 * http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=756
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 posed a serious challenge to U.S. neutrality, since Americans' sympathies lay overwhelmingly with Great Britain and its allies. The task of remaining neutral became even more formidable in mid-1940, when it appeared as though Hitler's Germany might actually win the war. SFC L. Melendez
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seasonal Changes Through Our Eyes and Yours **
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/Seasons/home.htm
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This collaborative project requires students to look at changes in a specific tree, temperature, seasons, and times the sun rises and sets. The students would have to observe the different things that happen during each season and share their findings in a blog. The project requires collecting data about the weather, as well as pictures during the different seasons. K. Huber
 * http://www.flatstanley.com/how.html
 * This project is wonderful for many grades. I can have my students write a journal with flat stanley for a few days. Have them take pictures of where Flat Stanley has been and describe what he has done. Once this part is done Flat Stanley is mailed to another school. The cycle continues and eventually Flat Stanley returns. Students are able to read what other students have written and are also able to see where flat stanley has gone. K. Wood

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