One Teacher's Experience Elementary teacher Toni Wing captured her students' interest by making them citizen-leaders of a city called Tinseltown. As business people, bankers, and employees, the students kept checkbooks and inventory and found out about the real world. The Global Online Adventure Learning Site brings real-life adventure into the classroom. Teams of explorers periodically post updates of their journeys. Not all projects run consecutively.
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On average, children only eat 2.5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. The Smile Train Cleft Buddy Project is a pen-pal program where classes exchange a small stuffed animal symbolically to represent children born with cleft lip. The project hopes to raise awareness and teach tolerance and acceptance of people with differences to others. The Journey North is an outstanding collaborative Internet project that involves classrooms in the study of wildlife migration and the changes to the environment as spring moves north across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A sister site, Journey South , follows the same information in the fall and prepares students for the spring s Journey North.