Travel Lesson - the students are tasked with planning a five-day vacation to New York City. They are given numerous travel-related links to help them along the way.

Difficulty Level: intermediate to advanced (some sites require registration to use)
Time: two hours

Shopping Lesson - the students are given a budget of $750 and told to buy gifts for their family. Most members of the family have a specific kind (book, clothing, cosmetics, etc.) of gift they would like to receive. Plenty of links are given to get the students started.

Difficulty Level: low-intermediate to advanced (a popular lesson)
Time: one to two hours

Preparing for Grad. School Lesson - the students have just been accepted to graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle. They need to look for housing, find out what's hot entertainment-wise, see what the weather's like so they'll know what to pack, and more.

Difficulty Level: intermediate to advanced
Time: one-two hours

Search Engine Lesson - introduces students to the various search engines on the Internet. Allows them to compare the effectiveness of the various sites as well as get used to entering queries into the engines in English.

Difficulty Level: low to advanced
Time: from one-two hours

Search Engine Lesson II - For this lesson we're going to work on using search sites in English. I'm going to ask you several simple questions that you should be able to find the answer to somewhere on the Internet. This will be a competition between your group and the other groups to find the information . . .

Difficulty Level: low to advanced
Time: from 30 minutes to one hour

Find a Job Lesson - has the students use various Internet resources to get tips on writing a great resume. Then they are given a range of diverse sites (from Disney to Yahoo to the CIA) to peruse for job listings.

Difficulty Level: intermediate to advanced
Time: from 30 minutes to one hour