Purpose of Today's Workshop

Consulting Experts in the Field

One simple way to incorporate the Internet into classroom lessons is to utilize experts in appropriate fields to answer your students' toughest questions. 

• CIESE Ask an Expert Page

Examples of Collaborative Projects

• 1995 Water Sample Project
• International Boiling Point Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What causes a pot of water to boil?
• Global Grocery List - (All ages) Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
• The Noon Day Project - CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) Work with students around the world to calculate the circumference of the earth.
• Math Forum's Problem of the Week - (All ages)
• Mathematics Enrichment (All Ages) Submit student answers to monthly math challenges. 
• Mighty M&M Math Experiment (All Ages) Mighty m&m Math teaches fractions and percentages.
• Counting Car Colors (Grades 3 through 8) The goals of the project are to develop skills in comparing,observing,

hypothesizing, graphing and communicating.
• Human Genetics Project -CIESE Project - (Grades 5 & up) What traits are dominant?
• Global Water Sampling Project-CIESE Project -(Grades 7 & up) Compare water sampling results.
• Roadkill '99 -(All grades) Learn about scientific monitoring and the hazards to wildlife.
• Acid Rain - (Grades 7 & up) Teacher developed project :  Does your local power plant increase the amount of acid rain in your town?
• Sunergy for the New Millennium - (Grades 7 & up) Unique way to study heat transfer and solar energy as an alternative energy source.
• Bugscope - (All ages) Gain access to a scanning electron microscope

Finding Collaborative Projects on the Web

• The CIESE Collaborative Project, Listserv, and Keypals Web Page

• The Weather Channel Online: Current weather information
• Radar Images :  Real time radar images
• Satellite Images :  Real time satellite images
• N.J. Air Monitoring Site: Find info on air quality in your area
• Recent Earthquake Events:Earthquake info from the National Earthquake Information Service
• CIESE Real Time Data Resource Page - Here you can find other real time data resources

• Understanding Time Conversion
• Converting from AM/PM to UTC
• Compare Your Computer's Clock to the Atomic Web Clock (UTC)

Examples of Real Time Data Projects

• Wonderful World of Weather (learn about climate and weather)
• Musical Plates (learn about plate tectonics)
• Stowaway Adventure (track a real ship)
• Oil Spills, Thrills and Chills (predict the path of a simulated oil spill)
• Rolling Thunder (predict the path of severe storms)
• Gulf Stream Voyage (learn about ocean currents)
• Ozone; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (learn about the causes and effects of ozone)
• Navigational Vectors (use vectors to predict the path of real plane in flight)

Other Compelling Projects/Resources

• CIESE Classroom Projects Page - Look here for other great science and math curriculum projects.
• CIESE Mail List - Join CIESE's automated mailing list to receive information about upcoming events.
• CIESE Instructional Resources - Places to go for lesson plans, curriculum standards, information sharing, and anything else that might be of help to teachers.