The Roadkill '99 project involves students and teachers with scientific monitoring and telecommunications and increases the participants' awareness of the motor vehicle hazards that face wildlife in the United States. The site is sure to stimulate discussion in your classroom. Students can watch live images, see experiment results, analyze real-time data, form hypotheses, suggest variable changes for new experiments, and share their conclusions with scientists from around the world. Two experiments, one for middle school students and one for K-4 students, are now offered. The Classroom BirdWatch program enhances students' observation skills, supports core science content and process skills objectives, promotes creativity, and provides opportunities for student inquiry.
Students collect bird data and are able to use an interactive database on bird research.
Students can publish their ideas, reports, and artwork in Classroom Birdscope, a national newsletter. They are encouraged to use such current technologies as CD-ROMs and the Internet to study weather and issues of air quality. The programs have set dates and time periods so that participants around the world can coordinate their learning schedules with fellow participants. What-ifs is a part of Science Junction, an interactive Web site that encourages science inquiry investigations of water quality.