| World peace | This is a four lesson unit about a dream to have PEACE on the EARTH. |
| Fairy Tale Quest | The students will locate a fairy tale written in each country, read it, and write down the main characters, and the plot. As they visit each country they will be told what site to explore and what they need to research. They use travel journals to enter their findings, thoughts, and ideas as they travel on this adventure. |
| My Favorite American Monument | You have just won a trip to five historical sites! To get going on your trip you must send us pictures, a project and keep a journal of your trip. At the end you will give a presentation of your favorite site to our committee. By doing this you will be help improve us our contest brochure for next year. Pack your suitcase and camera and be ready for an adventure of a life time! Lincoln Memorial -- Mt. Rushmore -- White House -- Statue of Liberty |
| Independence Day | National holidays, songs and symbols. Your class will make their own flag, monument, anthem and holiday for their own Independence Day. |
| Let's Go! | You and your own blue suitcase are going on a trip! You will need to decide where you are going to go, how you will get there, and what you will need to take with you. Who are you going to see? How long will you stay? How will you return? You will learn about economic decision making as you gather information about different forms of transportation and decide what kinds you will use. "Let's Go!" |
| With an 'oink oink' here! | You have just inherited a farm! You want to raise three types of animals on your new farm. You have 2 barns, one lake, and one field on your land. What animals are you going to raise? |
| Where's My Dot? | Everyone has his/her "dot" on the map. Some people call it their address. Your task will be to share with us what makes your "dot" special. |
| The Great Adventure | The Great Adventure takes children on a worldwide trip where they encounter exciting locations, interesting people and enticing activities. From the moment they pick up their passports, they discover one incredible destination after another. We help them plan their trip, or they can design their own itineraries. Whether it's a trek through the desert to a pyramid, a jaunt to the port to help unload a cargo ship, or a stroll through the bustling market bazaar, children will encounter endless ways to learn about the world and gain an understanding of each other. |
| My Holiday Portfolio | Holidays are days on which we remember and celebrate special people and events. Join in this activity to learn about different holidays in America. |
| Is It Moose, Mooses or Meese? | Have you ever wondered if Bullwinkle is real? Can a moose really talk to its squirrel friend? Does a moose live in a house like us? Let's find out! |
| First Grade Tour Guides | You and your own blue suitcase are going on a trip! You will need to decide where you are going to go, how you will get there, and what you will need to take with you. Who are you going to see? How long will you stay? How will you return? You will learn about economic decision making as you gather information about different forms of transportation and decide what kinds you will use. "Let's Go!" |
| Where Am I? My Place in Time and Space | In this activity, you will create your own intergalactic address book. After vewing the video, "The Magic School Bus Lost in Space", you will pretend you are a student in Ms Frizzle's class and help your classmates figure out how to get home from outer space. Author: Jaime Boston |
| Pilgrim Life Adventure | On Thanksgiving, we always seem to hear about Pilgrims. Do you know who the Pilgrims were? Do you know where they came from? Why did they come to America on the Mayflower? What would it be like to travel across the ocean to a new land? What would it be like to be a Pilgrim? Where would you go? How would you travel? What would you be able to take along with you? |
| In the Time of the Old Ones | Explore and experience the Navajo Indians' close relationship with the land they lived on. To do this: Identify why the Navajo wrote legends about the environment, and how they showed it in their rugs and blankets. Design a geometric rug pattern to symbolize a natural resource or part of the environment in your area. Create a legend about how that environmental object came into being. |
| Zelda's Zany Zoo | Congratulations! You have just been hired by Zelda the Zookeeper to design a new animal habitat for the city's zoo. The zoo is very run down and the visitor count has been decreasing. The city council decided to let Zelda hire consulting teams to design new animal displays. With these new displays, the city hopes to help improve the conditions at the zoo as well as increase the public's interest in seeing animals in realistic habitats. So, get to work! |
| A Royal Charter from the King | Know ye that His Royal Highness, the King of England, has hereby offered his approval to a venture establishing a colony across the seas on the shores of North America. This privilege has been extended to thy group contingent upon thou providing plans for such a colony. Such plans will, to the best available knowledge, insure the success of the colony and the health and welfare of the King's subjects. |
| Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr is a true story about a girl who lived in Japan toward the end of World War This Web Quest is designed to introduce you to Sadako Sasaki and her country of Japan. Find out why Sadako is a heroine to the children of Japan. |
| Konnichiwa, Welcome to My World | The students are going to help a new student from Japan feel welcome at your school before he even arrives, by creating a book. The book will show what is the same and what is different about the way Americans and Japanese live. |
| Dinoriffic WebQuest | An Internet WebQuest on dinosaurs |
| Dinosaur WebQuest | Your assignment if you accept: To travel back into time to recover some dinosaur DNA. |
| Recycle for Life | The objectives of this activity is to allow for the importance of understanding why it is important to recycle waste products. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | In this unit students will be given the opportunity to practice their skill with Microsoft PowerPoint to create a multimedia presentation about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his famous "I have a dream" speech. They are given a number of web links to do the research necessary and collect photographs, sound files, video clips, and text. |
| Cruisin' USA | Top Secret Mission urgently needs your help in solving a mission! |
| What is a Good Country? | Your parents have to relocate to any Spanish speaking country in the world and they want your help in deciding where to live for the next two years. So you must decide: What is a good country? |
| Adventures of Echo the Bat | Explores the concepts of remote sensing and biodiversity, through a lively story. Includes a teacher's guide. |
| Puppet | We're going to use the World Wide Web to visit different countries and find out what the puppets are like in each one. Then you will make a puppet and write a play for that puppet. When we're all done, we'll have a puppet show! |
| Cinco de Mayo | Put on your party clothes and get ready to explore the roots of Hispanic culture by learning more about this day in the history of Mexico. |
| Be a Web Site Sleuth! | Grades 1-2 - check out some great book and reading sites on some super authors. Pair up as great detective partners working like Nate the Great or Cam Jensen |
| In Search of Stellaluna's Family | Let's help Stellaluna learn more about being a bat. |
| MailQuest: A Search for the Mixed-Up Letters | This Quest will allow you to do better research on the states of Tennessee and Kentucky in the near future. Your internet searching skills will be helpful, as well as your mapping skills. |
| Poetry Quest | Learn all about poetry and then produce your own poems! |
| Quest for Respect with the Grouchy Ladybug | A grouchy ladybug, who is looking for a fight, disrespects everyone she meets. She finally learns good manners and how to respect others. Would you like to help the grouchy ladybug learn about herself and respecting others? It will be your quest to discover the meaning of respect and to become a ladybug expert. |
| Who Needs a Fairy Godmother, Anyway? | Almost everyone knows the story of Cinderella and how her Fairy Godmother helped her get to the ball, meet the Prince, and live happily ever after. But we know that Fairy Godmothers are make-believe. Your quest is to help Cinderella figure out how to get to the ball without depending on magic. |
| World of Pigs | Grade 1 - Students will learn more about pigs and complete assignments based on what they have learned |
| Animals of the Rainforest | The Indianapolis Zoo would like to expand their rainforest exhibit and need to learn more about animals who live in the rainforest. Your group will be scientists from the Indianapolis Zoo and go to one of the large rainforests in South America, Africa, or Southeast Asia. Pick 5 birds, mammals, amphibians, or insects to learn more about. |
| Australian Animals | You have been hired by the curator of the local zoo to help in setting up an Australian animal exhibit. You are expected to research 3 animals and find out the necessary information for him. |
| Betz's Pet Shop | You and your friends have been given the job of opening a new Pet Shop. Each team member will investigate and research a specific animal. Your task will be to classify and investigate each animal according to their specific group. Each team will create their own Pet Shop. |
| Cracking Dams! | Pick a level to learn about cracking and dams! |
| Fishfeatures | Welcome to Fish Features! You and your friends are apprentice marine biologists. You have discovered a new fish never seen before by humankind. Your job is to study your fish's anatomy and make a Hyperstudio presentation to the Fish Anatomy Academy (your peers). |
| Intertidal Zone Tour Guide | Welcome to Fish Features! You and your friends are apprentice marine biologists. You have discovered a new fish never seen before by humankind. Your job is to study your fish's anatomy and make a Hyperstudio presentation to the Fish Anatomy Academy (your peers). |
| Shocking Sharks | You and your partner have been hired by Sea World to study sharks and write/produce a shark commercial or adventure story. First, surf the Internet to learn all about sharks. Record this information on the Shark Cluster Map. Next, choose two sharks to compare and contrast. Record this information on the Shark Venn Diagram. Finally, you and your partner will be prepared to write your shark commercial or adventure story. |
| Weather Watchers | What's the weather like today in your part of the world? Do you think it's the same all over the world? No matter where you live, weather is an important part of your life. Let's find out about weather and how it makes a difference all over the world! Pack your bags, we're taking a trip!! |
| Weather WebQuest | You will be tracking weather forecasts and the actual weather in your city and the cities of your epals. At the end, you should know if people can believe the daily weather forecasts. Finally, your team of scientists will share your findings with your class. |
| Canada: A Family Vacation | Canada, our neighbor to the north, is a vast land. Canada is made up of several regions. Each region has its own special features that it is proud to share with the rest of the world. Your job, as a group, is to plan a one week vacation for a family of four. The family consists of a father, mother, a teenage boy, and a five year old girl. After researching the assigned region, your group will plan the family's vacation. You will research the people, climate, economy, culture, geographic features, language, heritage, and leisure activities. Your group will incorporate individual interests and desires into the vacation plans so that each member of the family is satisfied. Compromise will be necessary. |
| Pilgrim Life Adventure | What would it be like to travel across the ocean to a new land? What would it be like to be a Pilgrim? Where would you go? How would you travel? What would you be able to take along with you? |
| Trip to Germany | We are about to take a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Germany, a country on the continent of Europe. We need to gather a few things from the Internet, and we need to learn a few things, too, so keep track of what you discover in your TRIP PLANNER. |
| Global warming | A WebQuest: you have a task to do! |
| The Alphabet Train | The letters are on the lose! Those crazy letters are hiding everywhere. Help discover who is missing, and then identify the sneaky sounds they make - because they are hiding everywhere! Once you've captured all those wild letters make sure that they get safely back on board the letter train in the correct box car! |
| Conflict Yellowstone wolves | The task will be to analyze the Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf problem, and draw your own conclusion. |
| Orange Juice - From the Tree to the Glass | This is a set of activities designed to help second grade students understand the interrelationship between production and distribution and develop an appreciation for all of the many people who work hard to produce and distribute many items students may use on a daily basis. |
| Chinese Zodiaz | Learn about your Chinese Zodiaz animal, your personality. Do a survey of your family members, then create a family tree. |