Second Prize is a CD-ROM recorder for the three winning teachers and their schools. The courses include Calculus AB, Statistics, Microeconomics, U.S. Government and Politics, and Macroeconomics. Each course contains 150 hours of curriculum, meets The College Board standards, and includes tutorials, interactive learning tools, online discussions, readings, and assignments. Weekly progress reports are sent to the school, students, and parents. Grades are tracked by an online management system that provides students with self-checks, graded intermittent tests, and unit tests.
Online teachers monitor progress and help students throughout the course.
Students can be enrolled by schools or parents. The Lycos CyberSurfari program has become a year-round resource with its own Web site. In addition to hosting three contests each year, the site features the CyberSurfari Virtual Classroom with monthly lesson plans for teachers and students, practice and sample clues from previous CyberSurfaris, and Web links for teachers, students, and parents. During CyberSurfari 99, thousands of players explored more than 100 Web site outposts scattered across the Internet. Safe Searches Searchopolis provides an educational Internet portal, resource center, and filtered search engine for middle and high schools.