Online Adventures - These quests combine inquiry learning, technology and travel. These quests usually are a journey with the students following the adventure. For example: Maya Quest - explorers bicycling through Central America met with archaeologists discovering the secrets of the Mayan civilization

• World Quest Odyssey - this quest links students with a team of adventurers on their round-the-world trek. Share in their adventures to Africa, the Middle East, China and India.

• Journey North - students become the reporters for the migratory patterns of animals - A Global Study of Migration

• Classroom Connect – this is an excellent site which provides information on all types of quests.

  • Example:  America Quest

• Adventure Online - cross-curricular online projects and learning activities, online lesson plans and teaching materials and online interaction with explorers and subject matters experts and online teacher support. Adventures include the North Pole, the Northwest Passage and Magellan Global Adventure. The targets grades are 3 - 9. This site requires a subscription and bills itself as being more than a tracking of the adventurers. Some materials are available free.

• NASA Quest - this online adventure allows students to share in the excitement of NASA's scientific and engineering pursuits like flying the shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets and aeronautics and airplane research. At this site you can meet the people of NASA and watching space launches and speak to the experts.

WebQuests

Think Quest - this is an annual international contests for students 12-19 years old to create web sites based on a theme of their choosing. Awards total over $1,000,000.  Teachers can have their students create their own WebQuests based on this model.

Art Projects Online

• Eye on Art - online project focuses on students and how they view art

• Arts Connected - create your own online gallery

Business Projects Online

• The Stock Market Game

Foreign Language Projects Online

• Intercultural E-Mail Class - online projects and keypals for foreign language students

Health and Physical Education Projects Online

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• Education World - this site includes projects on bullying, the food pyramid and nutrition

Language Arts Projects Online

• Fake Out - the Vocabulary game for K-6 grades. Children write the definitions for vocabulary words

Publishing Student Projects Online

• Kidsbookshelf - this site publishes original book reviews, poems and short stories.
  White Barn Press - hosts a writing club for students in grades K-12 and provides an audience for their poems or stories 

• KidAuthors Magazine - publishes stories, poems and puzzles 

• Global Book Club - this project provides a global audience for book reviews by students for students. 

• Midlink Magazine - this is an electronic magazine for middle school students to share their writing and participate in interactive writing projects 

Math Projects Online

• Class 2 Class - provides collaborative projects for students. Example: Students image that they live in a small, remote, coastal village that has been supported by fishing for generations. The village could be anywhere in the world. The fishing nets are supposed to be safe but are still entangling the dolphins. Now the students must solve the problem.

Science Projects Online

• The Globe Program - allows students to participate in a world-wide data gathering project on the global environment

• NASA's Quest Project - the purpose of this site is to provide support and service to teachers and students to fully use the Internet as a tool for learning. This site connects K-12 classrooms to NASA experts.

• Internet Technology Fair - The "Internet Science and Technology Fair" (ISTF) is a real world science program designed to encourage teams of middle and high school students and teachers to explore Internet information resources and collaborate via e-mail with scientists and engineers. Together, they develop "Project Homepages" which focus on National Critical Technologies vital to our nation’s economy and security.

• Neuroscience for Kids - students can take an interactive tour of the brain, spinal cord and senses.  Teachers can find lesson plans and activities

Social Studies Projects Online

• Virtual Congress - collaborative project via e-mail where students in each class form their own congressional district, decide on a legislative agenda and work out the details of the federal budget. Proposals are posted on the Virtual Congress floor. Students then vote on the budget. The students' actual Congressional representative visits the class to answer questions about legislative and budgetary processes. The projects ends with a student press conference.