See the reference below to get on the next flight or pick up some worksheets. Till now, Campus 2000, the schools on-line service, has been the medium for our own collaborative projects such as The National Environmental Database. Schools gather environmental data, send it in and used the collected effort to study the national picture. This could go world-wide next term when Campus starts an Internet service, promising more for science as well as safer surfing for schools. The daily buzz of the Internet is in the discussion or news groups.
News groups are anarchic and unpredictable.
But there are teachers sharing work they've tried, and as chance would have it, there is often someone thinking the same thing as you, or more usefully they're a think or two ahead. More anarchic still is the rec.pyrotechnics news group. Here is the fascinating applied science of fireworks, ballistics, pipe bombs and nerve gas. Stephen Baines of Long Eaton School, Nottingham found surer things in the sci.chem group. Such is the magic of the system that by day two he had over 50 subscribers.