Intro to Interdisciplinary Projects

Using Technology as a Tool for Teaching Across the Curriculum
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/bwolfe.htm
You'll find an interesting discussion of an interdisciplinary approach in this (and other) articles at TechLearning.com

For ideas on elementary and intermediate level interdisciplinary project themes, check out these Web pages:
Thematic Planning Units
http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/projects/theme

Interdisciplinary Projects
http://www.teachersfirst.com/intrdisc.htm

Libby's Lesson Plan of the Revolutionary War
http://aep.latech.edu/5thgrade
In The Internet in Action, Libby Manning and her students use a variety of software programs and the Internet throughout their multifaceted, interdisciplinary social studies project on the Civil War.

Assessing a media-rich lesson:

The NTTI Web site Resources section
http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/ntti/resources/index.html
A resource page of many practical tips and strategies for incorporating the use of video and the Internet in your lesson plans.

Integrating the Internet into the Curriculum: Internet-ize Your Lesson Plans
http://205.146.39.13/linktuts/inteplan.htm
Link2Learn's guidelines for Internet-izing a lesson plan with guidelines, strategies, and templates for creating media-rich lessons, as well as databases of existing lesson plans that may fit your curricular goals.

Teach: Using technology as a tool
http://205.146.39.13/teach.html
This site is a part of Link2Learn's Technology Tutorials. It is full of multimedia authoring tools, workshop kits, Internet in the classroom activities, and comments from successful teachers.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)

ISTE's Web site
http://www.iste.org
Extensive information about ISTE's services as well as a host of links to valuable resources for teachers.

The NETS project Web site
http://cnets.iste.org/index.html
Details of performance indicators for teachers and students, along with lesson plans and strategies for integrating the NETS standards with content standards across the curriculum.

Communicating with other classes

Scholastic Global Classport
http://www.epals.com/scholastic
Connect and collaborate with classes across the country and around the world.

Scholastic Classport Featured Projects
http://www.scholastic.com/toolkit/classport/projects.asp
List of Classport projects by subject matter. After choosing a project, a class can then find other schools with which to partner.

Class Homepage Builder
http://homepage.scholastic.com/classpages/start_hp.cfm
This site provides fast, easy steps for creating a personalized class homepage.