http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/

Flat Stanley

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, mantees, whooping cranes--and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plan, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation’s premiere “citizen science” project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic1.htm

These are great questions for collaborative projects. Students are often faced with problems that are best understood by talking with others, collecting data from remote sites, or going through a series of problem solving activities.

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/lesson.ideas.html

The list contains specific data collection projects that teachers and their students may become a part of. Some of these projects may have been completed, but they can be used as a model for your own projects.

http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/fast/teachers/active.htm

Links to ongoing, interactive, web-based projects.

http://www.nasalearn.org/re_olp_journeynorthmysteryclass.htm

Summary: The Mystery Class investigation is an 11-week hunt in which students try to find 10 secret "Mystery Classes" hiding around the globe. The changing amount of sunlight  (photoperiod) at each site is the central clue. Students take an inspiring journey from knowing only sunrise and sunset times, to discovering exact locations of the 10 Mystery Classes. This investigation demonstrates that, as spring sweeps across the Northern Hemisphere, day length changes everywhere on earth and relate this to seasonal change and the position of the tilt of the earth’s axis in relation to the sunlight striking the earth. Students see that these dramatic seasonal changes in sunlight affect the entire web of life.