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Resources to Support Local and Global Inquiry

 * [|Internet Project: Preparing Students for New Literacies in a Global Village]

Local Inquiry

 * [|Classroom Match at ePals] (You can join for free but will take a few days while they check to make sure you are approved as a teacher)
 * [|Collaboration in the Classroom and Over the Internet]
 * [|ClassChats.com] (a wide variety of classroom partners and project ideas)
 * Voicthread 4 Education (visit the classroom partners page)

Global Inquiry

 * [|A teacher’s guide to International collaboration on the Internet]
 * [|Telecollaborate!--Collaborating in the Global Classroom]
 * [|Global Collaborative Projects for Students]
 * [|United Nations CyberSchoolBus] (visit the curriculum links on the left side of the page)
 * [|Global School Net]

Portal Sites that Offer Projects and Partnerships for Global Collaboration

 * [|ePals Project Page]
 * [|Global SchoolNet’s Collaboration Center]
 * [|Oz Projects]
 * [|Global Gateway]
 * [|Kidlink and Kidproj]
 * [|CIESE collaborative science projects]
 * [|iEARN (International and Education Resource Network)]
 * [|Judi Harris' Index to Internet Inquiry Projects and Activities]

Science and Math Focused Online Inquiry Projects

 * [|WhaleNet]
 * [|Journey North: Migration of the Monarch Butterfly]
 * [|Math Inquiry Projects] including:
 * [|The Data Library Sharing Project from The Math Forum]
 * [|CIESE Grid of Math Activities]
 * [|The National Math Trail]

Classroom Resources that Provide Useful Models for Getting Started

 * [|Planning and Starting a New Project]
 * [|Youth Learn] provides one structure that you may wish to follow for developing a local (within your classroom) inquiry project:
 * [|Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project] – a ReadWriteThink lesson with online resources for local online inquiry
 * [|Classroom Inquiry Paper Guidelines] provides guidelines for local inquiry projects. (You may wish to adapt to more online information.) See the evaluation rubric which you may consider using or adapting.
 * Lesson Plan for National Parks collaboration project (Jill Castek, Lisa Zawilinski, Karen Barton, & Theresa Gabor)
 * [|Galileo.org] provides examples of inquiry based studies across subject areas and grade levels.

Articles that Feature Classroom Projects

 * [|Brewer Class Chats its Way Across America]
 * [|Students Virtual US tour Snowballs to Connect Classes Nationwide]

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