Teachers can choose to participate in projects designed by other teachers or organizations or they can create projects themselves. Internet projects can be very basic, short-term activities. They can involve two classrooms or many classrooms. All projects should be based in curriculum, not a desire to use the Internet. Follow these basic steps as you plan for a project-based classroom activity.
Students combine both higher-order thinking and technological creativity.
This ThinkQuest project provides content, activities, and lesson plans related to physics, chemistry, earth science, and environmental science applied to the historically and industrially important mining on the Comstock Lode in Nevada. High school students studying American literature are curious about the puzzles and mysteries of the lives and works of Poe, Bradbury, and King.