New South Wales
Country Areas Program
Teachers Pages - On-line Research Modules
On-Line Research Modules offer teachers and students an easy access to using the internet whilst gathering and interpreting information to find a solution, overcome a problem, make a decision or create new information.
Find out more about On-line Research - read Jamie McKenzie's article "Making the Net Work for Schools: On Line Research Modules"

NSW CAP OnLine Research Modules
A growing collection of Research Modules created by classroom teachers across NSW to suit our curriculum.

WebQuests, On-line Research Modules and Other Web-Resourced Learning Activities
A great collection of sites offering On-line Research Modules or Web Quests compiled by South Australian teacher Jackie Miers.

Bellingham
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/online.htm
This page offers online student research projects tied to the social studies or science curriculum. Each project requires 5-8 visits to a lab or can be enjoyed within a regular classroom of 5-8 networked computers. Each project involves teams of students making a decision or solving a problem.

Grand Prairie Independent Schools District
http://www.gpisd.org/Modules/modulepage.html
Grand Prairie schools are in Texas USA. There are several online Research modules here which may be useful to Australian schools. Making the Net Work for Schools: Online Research Modules

Mrs MAC's LIBRARY SITE - A site containing tools for teacher librarians and teachers including Research Modules/WebQuests and lots of good links.

INTERLACE
This wonderful site has been created by Teacher Librarian Sue Lacey (Bega West PS) containing a huge number of links to support topics covered in the NSW Curriculum plus a great list of search engines, tips on using search engines and a host of encyclopaedia links on line. Have a look yourself!

WebQuest
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.

Baltimore County Public Schools' Research Modules
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/
The following modules were developed by teams of library media specialists and teachers during the 1998 Summer Curriculum Workshops. Our goal is to develop a module for each Essential Curriculum. Those that are developed are underlined in blue...just click on the link and you will open up a whole new world of research and learning for your students. As we continue to develop these modules, it is our vision to meet the high standards of Dr. Jamie McKenzie....student research that engages the student in higher level thinking and problem solving where the student creates answers, not just finds them.

Howard County Research Modules
http://www.howard.k12.md.us/res/resmod.html
The Research Modules have been created by teachers for the purpose of creating a safe web- surfing experience. Each Research Module culminates in an instructionally sound curriculum - based activity designed to have the students demonstate an understanding of the information through the development of a technology - based product. The units range in length from several days to several weeks.

COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
This page emphasizes WebQuests and Problem-Based Learning as unit formats, but links include other forms of lessons, tutorials and projects. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research.

From Now On
http://questioning.org/module/module.html
Online Learning represents an exciting new way to structure and guide student research efforts so they focus upon higher level thinking and rich electronic resources.
This Module Maker will show you how to build your own