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Engaging students in project-based learning experiences promotes collaboration and communication with peers both in the classroom and around the world via the Internet. Through this approach, students explore topics in-depth and acquire a better understanding of the subject matter. Some of the projects listed below offer opportunities to join, while other are meant to be examples that can be explored by students and need not travel beyond the classroom.
Pictaclues Prose Develop your students imagination and strengthen their research, reading and writing skills through this Internet-based scavenger hunt and creative writing project. http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/hunt/index.htm	New York City Close-Up Involve your students in becoming historians, observers, chroniclers and reporters of their community. http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/nyc/index.htm
Collaborative Projects: Online Projects Resource Page Listing of elementary level online collaborative projects to join and coordinate, suggestions on web design, addresses copyright issues, and more. http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/ online/join.htm	How to Join and Create Collaborative Projects Learn a better way to teach our students the basics of digital communication by joining or creating a collaborative project with your students. http://www.buddyproject.org/teach /integrate/pcollab6.asp
Collaborative Internet Projects for Lower Primary Students An Apple a Day... Winter Wonderland... Stellaluna's Friends... Pumpkin Patch... Frosty Readers... Owl Prowl... http://members.aol.com/Clinton2nd/	Electronic Elementary Magazine Very easy to read and navigate. There are projects offered by the E-Link staff and by outside project coordinators. It is geared for lower primary students. http://www.inform.umd.edu/MDK-12/ homepers/emag/
Houghton Mifflin Project Center Collaborative projects are listed by subject areas and grade levels. http://www.eduplace.com/projects /index.html	Travel Buddies Travel buddies are soft toys or puppets that travel the world as representatives of your class. They may go on a cultural exchange with a single school or travel widely on a path chosen by those who forward him to friends and relatives in other places. Follow the reports and photos of these plush travelers. http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/ projects/travel-buddies/

 

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