BioDesigns, Incorporated
Grades: 10-12
Students work collaboratively to invent a genetically engineered product and evaluate it from scientific, business, and ethical perspectives. This project has a comprehensive list of links to relevant resources, aswell as guiding questions for students.

Blizzard Attack!
Grades: 7-12
This site provides a problem-based learning opportunity in which students are engaged in open-ended, real world problems.  Blizzard Attack! establishes a scenario for students in which they are coming face to face with a major winter storm!  With the goal of staying safe and arriving at the destination, students will embark on a trip through the storm.  Once they have safely arrived, students are asked to write an essay defending the choices they made along their journey.  A little twist: students are assigned a new identity and must in “in character” while making the travel decisions, and they have state-of-the-art weather computers called WeatherPads that will provide weather information and updates throughout the trip.

Bullying.org: WhereYou Are NOT Alone!
Grades: K-12
Do you have a bully in your class?  Or perhaps a student who gets picked on incessantly?  Take him to this website, where he will be greeted with touching essays, music, pictures, and poems from both bullies and the bullied. This grassroots site provides children with wonderful opportunities to try resolving this pervasive evil in their own ways.

Interactive Weather Maker
Grades: 7-12
The Weather Maker is a simple, flash plug-in interactive tool that helps students see their newfound knowledge about weather in action.  There are two weather absolutes to be adhered to at all times, but beyond these two rules the rest is left to the students’ imaginations.  (Flash download provided if necessary.)

Look Who's Footing the Bill!
Grades: 7-12
In this "Introductory WebQuest on Democracy and the National Debt,"students assume the roles of number cruncher, fact checker, and budgetdirector to research solutions to the national debt.  The site includeslinks to the National Debt Clock, point of view articles, and e-mail addresses to senators so that! students can let their well-researched opinions be known.

We the Children
Grades:  9-12
Based on the 1984 Action Plan for Children, the site sets up a scenario placing students as one of four chosen to join the Executive Direction of the United Nation’s Children’s Fund in New York to evaluate its success.  Students are charged with researching the plan, evaluating its success, and making recommendations.  The assignment page breaks the project into seven manageable chunks and provides links to helpful pages.  There are also suggestions for places the students may post their writing online.