Students use the internet to research a holiday of interest to them. After researching the holiday, they research the country, culture and group who celebrates it and why. They create a presentation to share their information with the...

Students visit the student-created John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum website. They evaluate the sorts of research the students carried out to create their site, how they structured the site, and what sort of information and...

Young scholars write series of journal entries, from the perspective of an immigrant traveling to America via Ellis Island.

Young scholars develop final versions of their position papers and add them to the school's web pages for review and feedback.

Young scholars revise the in-depth project based on the suggestions they receive from their peer editors and their N/R expert contacts for publication on a class Web page.

Students receive and read electronic reviews of their essays.