Safety Lessons
Use the following lesson to prepare students for safe and positive online interactions.
ThinkQuest Competition Tutorials
Your Roadmap to Success is a 90-minute tutorial that students and coaches need to take in order to be successful in the ThinkQuest International Competition. All students and coaches should take this course first before team enrollment and entry submission.
Click here to take the tutorial.
ThinkQuest Projects - Sample Lessons
The following sample lessons illustrate how ThinkQuest Projects can be used to meet curricular and technology standards. Note that you must be logged in to ThinkQuest Projects to view these lessons.
ThinkQuest Projects - Sample Projects
The following example projects can be conducted at the elementary, middle, or high school level. Note that you must be logged in to ThinkQuest Projects to view these projects.
- Sugar: Friend or Foe? (Elementary School)
Students learn about the sources and effects of sugar. Then, they design a survey about sugar for their peers and use the resulting data to create online guides about sugar.
- Water in Our Lives (Middle School)
Students learn about fresh water resources and create online presentations to address how they can reduce stresses on fresh water availability at home and at school.
- Can We Use Resources Sustainably? (High School)
Students learn about sustainable resources and create online presentations with their recommendations for resource use.
Teamwork Guides
Use the following guides to help students develop teamwork skills for ThinkQuest Projects or the ThinkQuest Competition:
- Team Works Guide (PDF)
A series of teacher-led classroom activities to develop collaboration, cross-cultural understanding, and conflict resolution skills
- Team Ready Guide (PDF)
A teacher and student guide to creating successful teams
These guides were developed in cooperation with
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), an Oracle Education Foundation partner and grantee.
