Featured Internet Projects
WisKids
- Ms. Forward is missing! Join other students in locating her!
- Project SMART - Student Mentors
Assisting Receptive Teachers
- Project SMART is designed to match students who want to share their knowledge of
computers with teachers who want to learn how to use the Internet in their classrooms.
Students over 14 years old are even paid for their work!
- AfricaQuest
- AfricaQuest will follow a team of adventurers as they traverse Africa.
AfricaQuest will be followed and driven by kids, teachers and families online.
The adventure will take place October 5 - November 13, 1998.
- Journey North
- Students can help track wildlife migration in this project.
- Blue Ice: Focus on Antarctica/Food Webs
- Students, grades 4 - 12, from around the world are
working together in two sessions (October 19 - December 11, 1998 and
January 11 - March 5, 1999) in this
online "class" to learn just how an ecosystem as rich and vast as the
Antarctic food web can survive in the icy waters that surround such a
cold and barren continent as Antarctica. As we investigate the food
web, we also learn about the geography, weather, history, geology
and wildlife of Antarctica.
- GIS in Education Web Site
- Students from four Madison schools are involved in this project,
which is using chloride levels in street run-off as a focus to
integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into K-16 education.
- JASON Project X
- JASON X: Rainforests -- A Wet & Wild Adventure brings the thrill
of exploration and discovery live to students around the world as they participate in an
amazing electronic field trip! This project involves inquiry based learning in the areas
of geology, biology, glaciology and geography.
- Linking with Legislators
- Students involved in this project write a letter of recommendations to state legislators, in response to the legislators' invitation to research current issues in the state legislature.
- Sesquicentennial
- In celebration of 150 years of Wisconsin's statehood, this site will feature resources developed and produced by students about the history of Wisconsin. All Wisconsin students are invited to participate. Four existing projects are:
- And That's the Way It Was
- In this project, students will author a piece of historical fiction: a story, letter or diary about an event or period in Wisconsin history.
- Here We Are, Wisconsin!
- In this project, students will tell the story of their community, both past and present.
- Linking with Legislators
- In this project, students will write a letter of recommendations to state legislators, in response to the legislators' invitation to research current issues in the state legislature and to make recommendations about those issues.
- Our School Community
- In this project, students will tell the story of their school community and relate its development to periods or events in Wisconsin or United States history.
- UN Peace Day Peace Poem
- Every school (including homeschools) around the
world is invited to submit, via e-mail, two lines of poetry about
peace to the United Nations. Once collected, the lines will be
collated together into one long Peace Poem, and redistributed to all
participants and posted on the Web. The poem will also be published
as a booklet. All contributing schools will receive a free copy.
Submissions will be accepted from the International Day of Peace,
September 16, through October 24.
- Hewlett-Packard E-mail Mentor Program
- The HP E-Mail Mentor program creates one-to-one mentor relationships between HP employees
(worldwide) and 5-12th grade students and teachers throughout the United States. HP employees
motivate students to excel in math and science and improve communication and problem solving
skills. In addition, students are encouraged by their mentors to pursue their unique interests and link
these interests with their daily school experience.
- The Mystery Tour
- For the price of 30 postcards and postage, your class can try to figure out the
mystery town as the mystery tour travels America. And for one leg of the trip, your class will be
the tour guides leading other classes from around the nation, trying to get them to guess where you
are!
- Colonial Williamsburg 1997-1998 Electronic Field Trips
- There are 6 on-line field trips you can take here. Entering a field trip requires
registration; registration is $99.95 per school per program. Call 1-800-761-8331 for
more information.
- Shuttle Team Online
- You'll join the men and women who make the Shuttle fly and learn about
their diverse and exciting careers in this project. You'll peek behind the scenes as these
folks train the astronauts, prepare the Shuttle between missions, launch it, successfully
execute the mission and safely land it again.
- Women of NASA
- This project provides an opportunity to meet some of NASA's women via
scheduled live WebChats. Also abaioable is an archive of biographies of NASA's diverse
scientific and technical women.
- NeurOn
- This is a new project that will focus on the NeuroLab Space Shuttle
mission which will study the brain. NeurOn will include a television component airing
on PBS stations.
- Aero Design Team Online
- This project focuses on NASA's exciting aeronautics mission. Its first
topics will be huge wind tunnels and the world's best flight simulators. It will begin
in November 1997 and go through May 1998.
- Live From Mars
- NASA launched 2 missions to Mars in 1996. The Mars
Global Surveyor was launched in November and surveys Mars from orbit.
Mars Pathfinder was launched in December and landed on Mars on July 4,
1997. Once landed, the micro-rover Sojourner wandered the terrain,
sending back a wealth of new data. By participating in Live From
Mars, you and your students can travel along!!
- Iditarod Links
- For two weeks, "The Last Great Race" unites Alaskans in their passion for this unique
sporting event.
- CU-SeeMe Internet Videoconferencing Program
- With CU-SeeMe, you can videoconference with another
site located anywhere in the world.
- Where on the Globe is Roger?
- Students are invited to learn about history, culture,
geography and the environment while they electonically travel around
the world with Roger Williams - in his quest to promote world peace.
- Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
- Service to help teachers and classes link with
partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal
and project exchanges.
- Currency Comparison
- This Australian project provides a Currency Converter
that tells you the value of "your" currency as compared to others in
the world. You can add your data to the project such as the cost of
a hamburger and fries.
- Global Grocery List Project
- Students visit their local grocery stores and record
prices of items on the grocery list - then share their prices with
other participating classes all over the world.
- The KIE Internet Education Project
- Students search for "evidence" for research projects
using the Web.
- Writing Resources and Projects
You can participate in interactive projects available on the Internet
or create a new project and invite others to join. If you know of
other exemplary Interactive Internet Projects that could be published
on this page, send email to Barbara Spitz,
bspitz@madison.k12.wi.us
Internet Contests, Awards and Special Events
- The GII Awards
- From electronic commerce, Intranets and telemedicine
to community networks, educational Web sites and broadband, the
Global Information Infrastructure Awards looks for projects that show
the world the power and potential of networked, interactive
communications.
Call for Entries starts October 1, 1998
Warning: This site requires Netscape 2.0 or higher to be viewed.
- The 7th Annual ExploraVision Awards
- The 7th Annual ExploraVision Awards, a science competition open to K12
students, rewards creativity, ingenuity, and teamwork. The program awards
savings bond to top winners and awards valuable prizes to teachers and
schools. For more information or an enry kit, call 1-800-EXPLOR-9 or visit
the Web site.
Warning: To use this site you must
have Netscape 2.0 or higher or Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher, and JavaScript
must be enabled.
- The Headbone Derby
- The Headbone Derbies are FREE Internet research contests designed for kids
ages 8-14. Teacher's Guides, containing classroom hints and upcoming schedules, is
included. Prizes are awarded every week!
Warning: This site requires Netscape 2.0 or higher to be viewed.
- ThinkQuest
- ThinkQuest is an annual contest for students grade 7-12 which challenges students to
work in teams with their teachers to build educational tools and materials for the Internet that can
be shared with fellow students. Awards can total over $1,000,000!
- Check out the Online Planetarium Show, a ThinkQuest entry by Memorial student Andrew Holbrook and two students in Memphis, Tennessee.
Here are the 1997 ThinkQuest Winners and the
1996 ThinkQuest Winners.
- Student Ambassadors Program
- Student Ambassadors travel overseas for 2-3 weeks during the summer to learn, share,
and represent their communities and schools. If you are a student in 6th-12th grade, you
can apply to participate next summer.
- The Internet Science and Technology Fair
- Using the Internet as a resource tool, middle school and junior high
students will have an opportunity to be a member of a team whose mission is to seek,
obtain analyze and report on a state-of-the-art National Critical Technology. They
will work with on-line with a teacher and a technical advisor (who is a scientist
or engineer), using only e-mail and remote databases to locate the information they
need.
- Technology & Learning Teacher of the Year
- "Teachers: Share with us how you're using technology in innovative ways to improve the quality of education in your classroom.
Administrators: Help us find--and reward--visionary teachers in your district who are integrating technology into the curriculum.
Parents: Why not recognize an outstanding teacher who is making a vital contribution to your child's education?"
- The Global Bangemann Challenge
- Cities and regions all over the world are challenged
to show off their finest information technology. The winner will get
to go to Stockholm, Sweden, to accept the prize during the summer of
1999. Entry is free!
Warning: This site requires Netscape 2.0 or higher to be viewed.
- Community Share & CyberFair 99
- The theme of CyberFair is "Share and Unite," and the focus is on building cooperative,
supportive relationships between schools and their communities. Students "study" their
local communities and then publish web pages on their findings.
- "Building the Future" Essay Competition
- 9th - 12th graders are invited by the Planning Commisioners
Journal to compete in this competition. "We are looking for thoughtful and
creative thinking about the problems our communities face and how we can
plan for better places to live in. Essays can relate to issues in either
the student's own community or to broader state or national concerns."
Submission Deadline is January 18, 1999.
- WebFair '98
- Wisconsin WebFair '98 is the on-line worldwide showcase of
Wisconsin students' best educational uses of the Internet and the World Wide
Web. It is modeled after a traditional Science Fair, and is open for all
students, K-16.
- The Art DEADLINES List
- This is a listing of many different art contests for students. Deadlines vary
We invite students, staff and community members to submit sites that would be appropriate
to be published here. Additional sites can be sent to Barbara Spitz,
bspitz@madison.k12.wi.us
Last 
February 3, 1999
This site is maintained by Barbara Spitz,
bspitz@madison.k12.wi.us,
at Instructional Technologies, and Chris Burch.
Madison Metropolitan School District
Instructional Technologies: Coordinator, Joan Peebles jpeebles@madison.k12.wi.us
545 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53703 USA
