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CensusAtSchool 2008:Questionnaire Now Open
http://www.abs.gov.au/censusatschool
Interested in using data from a large nation-wide database of Australian students to answer questions about Australian school students?
CensusAtSchool is an online data collection and analysis project that allows students to improve their statistical literacy while being engaged in data themselves. Students use real, raw data to investigate questions of interest and make sense of the world around them.
The project is suitable for upper primary years to senior VCE levels. Now is your school's chance to be part of the data for 2008! Flat Stanley
In the book, Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown, Stanley is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. One of the many advantages is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends by travelling in an envelope. This premise provides a reason for us to keep in touch with each other. The Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide students with another reason to write.
http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/join.html The Million Puppet Project
http://url.edna.edu.au/QR9x
Imagine a million puppets all exhibited in one big space... sock, hand, rod, finger, junk, glove, shadow, marionettes and moveable creations never seen before! The Million Puppet Project invites people from around the world to make and send a puppet to Perth, Western Australia, for a new Guinness World Record - The World's Largest Puppet Display! The Million Puppet Project is an initiative of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and is officially part of UNIMA 2008.
http://www.millionpuppets.com Know Your Community
This project provides an opportunity to share with others around the world highlights of one's community. Students will have an opportunity to learn about other communities and discover their location on the world map. Participants are encouraged to provide interesting facts about their community that they would like others to learn about around the world. Students will be able to learn about other cultures and countries from around the world and make new global friends.
http://url.edna.edu.au/fF6y Half the Flush!
Year 5/6 students will research into whether or not installation of dual flush toilet systems within school communities will really make a difference. The students will develop research questions to ask staff, students, parents of the school community. Once the data is collected, the research will be put into practical application as students organise products, costing and installation of dual systems within their own school community.
http://smcs.nsw.edu.au
The Global Challenge
http://www.globalchallengeaward.org
In the Global Challenge, teams of high school students collaborate with international counterparts from October to May to address global climate change and compete for over $60,000 in awards! Students strengthen skills in math, science, engineering, and critical thinking, while learning about global business practices.
City Life - an essential guide to liveable cities
City Life is an essential guide to liveable cities: Students will be studying urban areas within this project and identifying and examining different aspects of living conditions. The intended activities are for students to investigate a variety of aspects of city life gathering research material both in the classroom and in the field. Students will explore issues facing their city. Blogs and email are essential components of this project.
http://url.edna.edu.au/tRV8
International Space Station 2007
Learn with and from American and Canadian astronauts what living and working in space is really like! A once in a lifetime opportunity for grades 3-12 teachers and students to communicate through the project blogs with Expedition 15/16 Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson, during his mission to the International Space Station this June to October. Supporting the project on the ground from the Canadian Space Agency will be Dr. Steve MacLean, who completed a mission to the ISS in 2006.
Students will conduct classroom experiments in parallel with similar experiments being carried out in the free-fall environment on board the International Space Station. They will communicate and compare their results with other participants around the world as well as astronaut Clayton Anderson.
http://url.edna.edu.au/57mr The Drops of Life
The Drops Of Life is an environmental play about tree planting and co-operation. Schools around the world are invite to take part to this activity, arranged by the ENO Programme. The world premiere will be on the 29th of May 2007 in every continent, to celebrate the World Environment Day 2007. The Drops Of Life is one of the activities for the ENO Tree Planting Campaign 2007, in co-operation with UNEP. Register, get the material and see the progress of this play in the blog.
Register by 29 April 2007. For pre-school to Year 9/10
http://url.edna.edu.au/aAwj World Environment Day Awards 2007- Education/School Award
Nominations Now Open Australia-wide for the United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Awards 2007. The 'Signode Education/School Award' category for best school-based project exploring environmental themes or issues invites nominations from teachers and students at primary and secondary school levels throughout Australia.
http://url.edna.edu.au/tRV8 Hooked on Books
An international Year 3 - Year 8 project that encourages students to take time to read, share and reflect -- with children in their class, their country, world-wide.
http://url.edna.edu.au/CyeR The Linnaean way...
http://url.edna.edu.au/5aWe
Try out the Linnaean way of classifying matter and produce a guide to a selected biological matter e.g. leaves, twigs, buds, fruits, vegetables, insects, or minerals (one only).
Gator Tales
http://url.edna.edu.au/S3PK
Two classes are interested in sharing knowledge about state history, culture, population, and symbols with classes from around the United States. Participating classes will receive a package containing a stuffed alligator from Florida (the designated mascot) who will arrive with information about Florida. The mascot is seeking information about all participating states and will ultimately return back to Florida with a “gator tale”. It is asked that the receiving school "teach" the mascot about their state by filling in five specific charts (worksheets) requesting facts about their state.
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