This article describes how Cahokia middle and high school students conduct inquiry-based science through a pitfall trap experiment. In a collaborative effort, students designed and conducted pitfall trap investigations that combined their interest in the natural world with their love of technology. The students set up their own experiments to determine the number and variety of macroinvertebrates inhabiting different areas of their school grounds. Students were provided the materials, the entire step-by-step procedure, and a diagram of the trap. In an effort to emphasize the importance and advantages of technology, students entered their collected data online, which was then downloaded into a spreadsheet and manipulated, charted, and analyzed. This added component allowed students to compare their data with other students' data in schools around the state, country, and world conducting the same investigation. Students answered questions regarding the results of their data and the online data collected by other students. Students also looked for similarities and differences that might indicate the type of climate, topography, and biomes where the online pitfall trap samples were collected. At the end of the experiment, students answered a variety of questions that prompted them to consider options for redesigning the experiment. (Contains 3 figures.)