Student enjoyed an explorer project. First they looked at a series of books about famous places in the Unites State and around the world. Then they chose some places they would like to explore. I wrote the names of the first six randomly suggested and then students chose which place they wanted to learn about.
Then we went to the computer lab where they sat close to the students with the same topic. They went to Grolier's online encyclopedia searched for their place and began to write down things to do and see. While they did that I went to each student and they picked out a picture to be printed for their poster.
The next time we went to the computer lab students completed an online search of their place finding more things to do and see.
Their writing assignment was to write a travel journal entry about what they would do and see at their place. Finally, they worked with their group to produce a poster about their place and then report back to the class. Hopefully, they learned about using an online encyclopedia, searching online, working with others, and printing pictures from online.
