Open source participation for K-12 classes

These ideas are in order of difficulty to implement.

Wikipedia article enhancement
Take an article in Wikipedia and enhance it:


 * Research and add new content.
 * Edit and enhance the writing.
 * Add content to a stub (incomplete) article.
 * Add additional references to articles.

Wikipedia article series enhancements

 * A group or class takes a larger task of filling the ideas in, but applied to a set of articles.

Wikipedia sense of ownership

 * Create one or a set of new content pages, including research, references, free media sourcing, etc.

Translate to simple.wikipedia.org

 * Convert one or a set of general Wikipedia articles to the Simple English Wikipedia.

Work in a niche, focused, or more authoritative wiki

 * OpenWetWare for sharing of biology information, for example.
 * Open Notebook Science to discover new science work underway that can be interacted with.

Use an open source tool made for kids and report back to the maker

 * Use Tux Paint for individual or group activities, send an email to Bill Kendrick explaining what you did and how well the program worked for you.
 * Use [ Audacity] to record and edit multi-track sound, search for help on using the software, such as tutorials. What would a tutorial aimed at young students look like?  Could the class write that?

Sugar 4th grade maths testing

 * Use Sugar on a Stick to boot a working Sugar instance, then test the 4th grade maths activities.