Design floor plans of dream houses and build models from them, consulting an architect or contractor via e-mail to find out about building codes or other important questions. Ask a working scientist to answer real-world questions about geology, oceanography, biology, meteorology, chemistry, physics, or any other topic that presents interesting challenges. The World Wide Web is becoming a rich repository of student work of all kinds. There are many potential uses of these online publications. For example, creative multimedia presentations by students in another school or photographs of classroom activities may serve as examples of projects that your students might do.
Students also have a lot to teach each other.
In another example from the same school system, students published information about their daily lives on the Web to be shared with students in other countries. The knowledge that a student's work could be seen by millions of people around the world can often increase the student's effort and standards for his or her own work. Some organizations collect and publish student writing and art work electronically. The potential benefits of sharing the creations of young people through the Web are just beginning to be explored. Once again, sources should always be considered, especially when relying upon the accuracy of information published by students.