Instructions for appropriate use are included in the greeting when you subscribe. You can sign up for next fall by writing us. I am putting it on-line so that more educators may be able to access and use it. It is appropriate for those studying the Middle Ages as well as those studying epidemics. Although it is a single lesson simulation, it can be part of a larger cross-curricular miniunit.
Students research their own science topics using multiple resources, including the internet.
The writeup on the project is available on-line. But the most exciting part is a growing collection of letters and resources which students have received over time on a wide variety of science subjects. Many of these have come from usenet Newsgroups such as sci.med, or sci.bio and many others. Right now we have only a few examples, but we invite others to write to us, and as students work on their projects we are asking permission to post appropriate letters on-line. Other resources have been downloaded from the WWW using Netscape.