You can connect virtually any 2 topics in biology. One might argue that being able to stop what you are doing, observe, and hypothesize is a scientific virtue. Real science is not always convenient. It takes time and persistence. Online projects can provide this lesson also.
Online projects involve collaboration at the classroom level and beyond.
To make them work educationally, teachers need to incorporate stragies of cooperative learning and individual accountability into their lesson plans. We can discuss specific ways to do this below.