The sites listed below are the "best" in our opinion for parents/children or teachers/students for Internet learning activities.
http://www.rialto.k12.ca.us/curriculum/ReadtoWrite/Welcome.html --In this project you will read a literature selection, submit information to the project database, and participate in discussions about the qualities of the genre we're studying. Then apply these qualities to your own writing and get published on the web!
http://www.unicef.org/voy/ –Where you can share ideas about important world issues.
http://www.kidlink.org/ - Kidlink is a grassroots organization aimed at involving students ages 10-15 in a global dialog. These dialogs may involved open email discussion, moderated discussions around a theme, and special projects.
http://www.epals.com/index.html --This site makes it possible to meet other classrooms from around the world. This site is easy to use and has 6707 classrooms from over 80 countries listed. There search engine makes it easy to find a match for your classroom.
http://www.onr.com/schoolhouse/Projects.html -- At this site, you'll find a list of on-going projects that are sponsored by the award winning site, "The Internet Schoolhouse." If you are looking for a project, this site will have one that fits you!
http://landmark-project.com/ggl/index.html --Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
http://gsh.lightspan.com/project/newsday/index.html --Grades: 3-12 students produce their own newspapers based on news articles sent to the "Newsday" news wire.
http://uv.cwrl.utexas.edu/ -- Designed to help students simultaneously reflect and speculate, considering their place in history's continuum.
http://www.rialto.k12.ca.us/curriculum/ReadtoWrite/Welcome.html – Grades: 3-12 Imagine virtual book clubs in which students worldwide share analyses, discuss literature, and publish their own work over the Internet.
http://www.globe.gov/ -- Grades: K-12 students from over 6,500 schools in over 80 countries use the Internet to report and publish environmental observations from their schools.
http://www.earthdaybags.org -- This site shows students how to participate in the Earth Day Groceries Project , in which students decorate paper grocery bags with pro-environmental messages, and give them to stores to use to hold customers' groceries.
http://www.uwex.edu/erc/index.html – Here, teachers can download curriculum guides that will help classes perform service-learning projects with a focus on improving local water
quality.
http://africaquest.classroom.com --This Interactive Web site takes you on a virtual expedition through the Great Rift Valley where you'll help a team of experts explore some of the greatest mysteries of all time.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ – A great United Nations site for teachers and students.
http://www.spaceday.com/en/index.html -- Visit the Space Day site and take an electronic field trip into outer space. You will find 101 things to do during Space Day, you can send a friend an outerspace postcard, find teacher tips, and more activities can be found here.