Month	NetAdventure	Description	Theme
May	Descent of a Ball	Design and build a structure that slows down and speeds up the descent of a ball. Kids will then share their best designs on the Web. The final challenge is to build a Rube Goldberg machine.
June	Solar Observatory	Measure how hot items get by exposing them to the sun. Figure out how much energy you get from the sun by measuring how quickly it can heat up water. The final challenge is to build a device that capture the energy from the sun.
July	Mosquitoes	Investigate the impact of different colors on mosquito larvae. Kids will join scientist Forrest Mims who is studying and how sunlight and haze influences mosquito larva development. Forrest has an interesting and important theory that needs testing that students can provide. This will give participants a chance to contribute to the advance of science and be published.
August	Cryptography	Learn how secret messages can be encoded and decoded. Participants will see how this ancient issue is now essential to security on the Web.
September	Estimation	Estimate with a game that gives practice at finding numbers with scales.
October	People Population	Conduct surveys to predict how your town or region will grow and how this fits into the future population of the world.

What happens after the first six months? After the first six months have past, six new NetAdventures will be introduced.

| top of page |

NetAdventure™, A project of The Concord Consortium and KidSolve™, Inc.. Copyright © 1997, All rights reserved. Questions/comments regarding this web site can be sent to webmaster@livingtext.com Inquiries regarding NetAdventure can be sent to netadventure@kidsolve.com