For security reasons, ePALS does not accept profiles submitted by children. Students adopt a pond and collect information about it to submit a description of their pond to a database of similar descriptions from around the world. The project can be adapted to all phases of development and the website contains a range of links to lesson ideas, a virtual tour of a pond, information about pond ecology and discussion opportunities. Set up by Global Schoolhouse, teachers and students can share their experiences and activities using a the website that helps teachers manage the exchange of virtual field trips. Using this project, students can extend the relevance of local field trips beyond immediate curriculum outcomes and use an array of learning technologies to share their experiences and activities with other students around the world.
Classes can either host their own field trip or vicariously join a field trip.
A great way to enhance learning outcomes from school excursions. This information is then prepared as a web page and a link submitted to the parent site. This is an excellent project for students and teachers who want to develop HTML and web page making skills, while also encouraging critical thinking, research, mapping and literacy skills. A lesson plan is included on the site, plus a list of the participants. This section of The Natural Child Project site is designed to provide children with a safe forum for publishing their artwork on the Internet.