4.+Web+Quests

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Stephanie Colby-Environmental/Activist WebQuest http://www.tenafly.k12.nj.us/~tmoore/Webquest/envir.webquest.htm The Environmental/Activist WebQuest is a long term project for third graders that teaches the importance of caring for our earth. There are five concerns that students can focus on: Air-Global Warming, Groundwater Pollution/Chemical Dumping, Land Pollution, Endangered Species, and Deforestation. For this project, students will find the necessary information about these problems and find out why we keep letting this happen to our world. Students will then gather this information and try to persuade others why there needs to be changes right away before our world gets worse. Students can also go around their community and try to persuade others that there needs to be changes and maybe one of these problems can be fixed. I think this is a good project for teachers because it allows their students to have a voice over concerns that might make them think that they are too small to do anything. We all have the power and the freedom to make better changes for our world.

Steve Cavaligos – Take Me on Vacation! “A WebQuest” http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/vacation/t-index.htm This is an outline of a WebQuest which I found through a website, bestwebquests.com, featuring links to many other WebQuests and tips on what you should and should not do in a WebQuest assignment. I chose this one in particular because it has both the page containing the assignment for the students as well as the teacher’s page which states what is to be accomplished and why. Like many Web based assignments the development of cross-curriculum skills is emphasized, in this case it is linking math skills with writing skills while getting the students to work in groups. I like this lesson for 3rd and 4th graders because they don’t always understand the lengths their parents go to in order for them to go on nice vacations. It’s a good way to start younger kids on the path to being informed consumers.

Laurie Peterson - I Was Part of the Movement, WebQuest http://questgarden.com/46/11/3/070131132238/t-index.htm As a scholar of history, I believe that primary sources should always be utilized before second hand textbook accounts. That is why I highly recommend the, “I Was Part of the Movement Web Quest” for educators teaching United States Civil Rights History 1950 to 1970. This web quest requires that students submerge themselves in the movement as eye witness participants. Students will choose an actual eye witness participant to the Civil Rights movement and literally become that person reporting what they are experiencing from that person’s perspective. The web quest provides background information on the movement and a rubric so students know exactly how their final projects will be evaluated.

Bonnie Breckenridge-Fire Safety WebQuest [|Fire Safety WebQuest] http://questgarden.com/46/40/2/070207140548/process.htm This specific example is of a web quest designed for grades k-12 relating to health/PE. Kacie Wilson and Dorian Fogo are the Authors of this web quest. They came up with it to teach students about what to do in the case of emergencies that are caused by fire. It starts out with the introduction which explains what the web quest is intended for. This particular web quest was made to be an assignment that the student listens to the teacher read aloud about fire safety. It also shows how they are assessing the effectiveness of the web quest.

Adam Sharp- Web Quest the Great Depression http://education.iupui.edu/webquests/depression/webquest.htm On this web quest you are given an assignment to imagine you are a person of a certain profession living in the time of the great depression. The set task is to understand what kind of economic choices you would make during that time period. Using such things as what your wage for your profession would have been how long you needed to work to provide for your family, and other aspects of the daily life. You will then explain why you made the economic choices that you did for that set profession. Great way to study The Great Depression.

Ness Garland- Education World http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml I think this is a very useful website when creating a web quest. On this website it not only tells what a web Quest is, it helps you create one, and provides you with the resource that you need to successfully complete a web quest. On this web site you can find examples of pre-made lesson plans to help get you started. You can also find links to different technological advancement on the web that can be used with in the class room. This is a website I believe that every educator can and should use to advance within the classroom.

Brianna Duvall- WebQuest.Org http://www.webquest.org/index.php WebQuest.Org is a website that you can go to find and create different WebQuests. It has a search engine that you can search keywords or WebQuests for specific areas of curriculum and grade levels. It allows you to view other web quests that have been previously made. This is useful because students and teachers can go to this website and find information on a specific topic formatted in a WebQuest layout. Also, teachers and students can go to this website and create their own WebQuest. You can subscribe to QuestGarden, which shows step-by-step directions on how to create your own WebQuest. The QuestGarden is a twenty-dollar fee for a two-year subscription.

Monica Maurer – Ring of Fire webquest [|www.**glencoe.com**/sec/**science**/**webquest**/content/volcanoes.shtml] This webquest asks students to do research on plate tectonics and volcanic activity around the plate boundaries. In its introduction, it describes the last volcano that erupted in the Philippines in 1991. With the effects of this volcano so devastating, the purpose of the webquest is to discover identifying indicators of erupting volcanoes around the ring of fire. The webquest provides many helpful links to help you collect information. It asks that you complete a table with information about the different volcanoes, their location, and last known activity. Its final instruction is to draw a map with the volcanoes that surround the ring of fire.

Jake Meyers- Physical Education Webquest http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/TEC/WebQuest/PEWebQuests.htm This website has multiple web quest for various grade levels. The goal is to get students to use the internet and become physically active. The school behind this website uses this as a P.E. final. The students are required to do research, write a paper, and do a demonstration of the activity in their web quest. This combines writing and research skills within health education. They also explore the health of nutrition and with an interdisciplinary study with science. The levels of education range from kindergarten to 8th grade.

Patty Landsly – National Park System Webquest [|National Park Webquest] This webquest is designed to introduce students to our national park system, the junior ranger program and the rich natural resources that we have preserved for generations to come. The students become a regional expert by studying one park in the nation in depth. They also work on the requirements to become a junior ranger of the National Park Service. Within the larger quest there are also mini-quests for the students to learn about the history, natural features, highlights of the parks, wildlife, plants and more. The students are also required to put together a power point presentation and create their own ranger station. This could be a great addition to a study of the United States, geography, the environment and many other units.

Aubrey Findley-Schubert Webquest http://schubertquest.tripod.com/ This webquest is designed to get students into music history. Teenagers who use this webquest are to pretend they have become a famous musician. They must research Schubert. They need to look over a finished Syphonic form of his and research his background story. They then are required to take an online quiz about his life to check their knowledge. Then they must look at one of his unfinished works and create a composition using one of the unfinished melodies.Then they are to post the knowledge they have learned onto another website so they can share it with other students and receive feedback.


 * Meghan Smith-Bat Quest
 * http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/navigator.html
 * I have chosen a BatQuest for my WebQuest example. I have chosen this particular quest for a few reasons. This WebQuest is very informative. I feel that by giving this WebQuest to elementary age students would be a great addition to any classroom’s Halloween time activities. This WebQuest gives great educational information about bats lives, families, strength, diets, and so forth. Also, after completing this WebQuest, there are some great activities to try; from crossword puzzles to arts and crafts to trivia. Overall I feel that this is a very well done WebQuest that will offer students great insight and knowledge. I feel that students will also enjoy being able to explore the website as well.

Adam Padjen- Let's go to New York Webquest http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/henry/webquests/New%20York/nywq.htm This is a web quest all about the city of New York. It starts you out finding it on the map and runs you through most of the important info about the city. It takes you through all the boroughs or New York and has links to photos of historical things in New York City. There is a section on the famous building of Manhattan and other famous places there. I really like this web quest because it navigates you through the important things in New York and it keeps you interested. The photos help so you can actually see what you are learning about.

Crue Harmon - Why Webquest? http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml A quote from Bernie Dodge, Webquests are "inquiry-oriented activities in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet." I think in this quote the meaning is directed toward the fact that instead of having to spend so much time looking up information for projects, web quests allow you to focus on using it instead of researching it. This helping kids not waste time in there studies, the site also gives direction in how to create webquests and also why you should use them. This website is excellent because it explains in depth about how to do all of these things and how to save time as well.

Corey Heisel-- math webquests http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM99/ This is another great website for math related actvites. The website gives several links to different math related webquests and it also shows you a step by step instruction on how to create your own webquest. Another great feature of this site is that it gives a basic deffinition of what a web quest is and how they are used. This is a great tool for teaching students how to use webquests and introducing them to a new way of presenting information. The site will also allow students to practice using webquests so that when other teachers asign webquests students will already have experience with them.

Timothy Thrasher-World War II webquest http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/pearlharbor/index.htm This web quest is intended for grades sixth thru eighth. This web quest talks about how the history of the United States Of America would be different if Pearl Harbor wouldn’t have been bombed. The quest is the students researching the war and the people involved. The students search the roles of the President, a historian, American Soldier, Japanese Soldier, civilians, and Emperor Hirohito. Students were to search the web and ask veterans or family who were alive during the war, and present what they have learned. This web quest can not only teach the students more about the war but help them appreciate the ones that contributed to the war. I would definitely recommend this web quest to teachers.