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* Chicago's Water
The Lab Schools' contribution to Globalearn's Internation Expedition While Globalearn's expedition went to Turkey to learn how water is used there, the students in Mrs. Dorman's 5th grade class in University of Chicago Lab Schools investigated the use of water in Chicago.

*Communicating Through the Internet
Created by Marilyn Healy at Bardwell Elementary School , Aurora, Illinois, through participation in the Fermilab LINC class. This is an online project that introduces primary students to the concept of the internet, telecommunications, and e-mail. For teachers the project has the purpose of integrating telecommunication into their existing curriculum and class instruction. It provides a link between the real world and what students learn in the classroom.

* ExTerminator Mystery Project
This project was developed in the spring of 1995 by Mr. Ramme and his 5th grade students at Broadmeadow Elementary School, Illinois. The project had its origin from the students extensive studies in entomology and their fun times in playing "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" The project was released onto the Internet in the spring of 1995 and met with great success.

* The Iditarod Dog Sled Race ILW Original
Developed by Judy Bernard, Edgewood School, Woodridge, IL for grades 4-5, who used Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives to plan the unit.

* The Island Project
This web site was developed by the students in Ms. Kathy Dorman's 1995-96 5th Grade Class at University of Chicago Lab Schools. The stories and maps are entirely student work. Maps were drawn by hand then scanned; map titles were added by the students using Adobe Photoshop. Students wrote and edited their stories, by hand and on computer. Then they made final corrections suggested by a teacher.

* Math Pages from Niantic-Harristown Community Unit School District #6
The problems are created by the fifth grade harristown math group.

* Plants And Animals
Rupley students are examining plants and animals at Busse Woods Forest Preserve and comparing them with Academy collections.

* Prairie
The unit, "A Celebration of Prairie Life," is an eight-week multidisciplinary study for fourth grade in Oak Park district 97, Illinois that integrates several subjects, including the fine arts: social studies, language arts, science, mathematics, music, visual arts, dance, and drama. The choice of the prairie as a topic for integrated study provided for natural connections between the subject areas.

* The Trial of the Century
Project by 4th graders at Carroll-Rosenwald School, Chicago, IL. On Friday May 3, 1996, the 3rd grade students in Room 104 at Rosenwald held a civil trial. On trial was Goldilocks, the famous golden-haired beauty of Goldilocks and the Three Bears fame, who had been charged with trespassing, stealing and property damage.



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