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Student Work Creating
WebQuests
Create and Design Your Own WebQuest
Exploring WebQuests!
Here is a list of WebQuests. Take a look at at
least 3 to see how they work.
What are the major parts include in each WebQuest?
What kinds of tasks are students asked to do?
What resources will students need?
What kinds of skills do students need to complete the tasks?
What kind of thinking is required of students?
Pumpkin Patch (intermediate or up- interdisciplinary)
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq55/bowen.htm
Mars Quest (from NASA education resources - Science)
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Quemarsintro.html
2003: Homesteading Mars (Social Studies 5-8)
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/itec815_s99/mdeschamp/index.html
In Search of Stellaluna's Family (K-2)
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/batquest.html
What Makes Someone Great? (high ability 6th grade or middle school)
http://www.geocities.com/v_wright_99/wq/index.htm
States for a Change (5th grade social studies)
http://www.nhcs.k12.nc.us/williams/quarterwebquest/index.html
Civil War Webquest: Heroes and Villains
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/rechel/default.htm
Project for Shakespeare's Macbeth
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/pmiller/index.htm
Webquest: Tall Tale News
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/shermanquest/default.htm#WebQuest:%20Tall%20Tale%20News
Fitness: For the Health of It
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/Spohn/default.htm
Baseball Prediction Webquest (Statistics)
http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM99/baseball.html
Grades 9-12 Foreign Language Webquests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix/9-12-For.htm
more 6-8th grade Language Arts Webquests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix/6-8-Eng.htm
more 9-12 math webquests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix/9-12-Mat.htm
more 6-8th grade Social Studies
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix/9-12-Mat.htm
Read about the major building blocks of a WebQuest and look at some examples of each.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm
Selecting a WebQuest for Use in the Classroom
Evaluating WebQuests as part of the Curriculum
Should you use a WebQuest? How do you decide what topic in the curriculum could be taught best using a WebQuest?
(The following information is adapted from the Webquests class offered through Connected Classroom and based on Bernie Dodge’s Webquest Page.)
- The areas of your curriculum that have been difficult to teach
- The areas that your students have had trouble learning
- The areas that fall short of state or local educational standards
- The areas of education that can be adequately researched. (areas that rely heavily upon local or personal information may not yield many resources on the Web.)
|
Possible
Topic |
Possible
Score |
Your
Score |
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The
topic can be clearly tied to state of local curriculum standards |
15 |
|
|
The
topic is something you’ve had trouble teaching in the past to our own
satisfaction |
10 |
|
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Information
is available on the Web at an appropriate level for your learners |
20 |
|
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There
is useful information on the topic that is unlikely to be available in a
school without access to the Web. |
10 |
|
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Information
on the topic changes frequently. |
15 |
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The
talk required looking at information from multiple perspectives or in
multiple formats |
20 |
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The
task requires synthesizing information, transforming it into a new form
different from what the learners looked at |
30 |
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The
task is akin to the work that adults do, as opposed to the kinds of
activities that take place only in schools. |
20 |
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Evaluating
WebQuests
from article by Tom March "Why WebQuests"
Choosing a WebQuest
As stated, the most successful WebQuests have little to do with bandwidth or the excellence of the Web sites we link to. The most important factor is you, the teacher. You know your students, their prior experiences and knowledge, the things that tend to interest them, and the goals you hope to achieve while studying a topic. Successful WebQuests will act as one more learning strategy to achieve these goals. Thus the best place to look to help you decide which WebQuest(s) to choose is at your current curriculum on the related topic. Ask yourself, "What has been successful and what has seemed lacking?" If you're happy with the way you introduce the topic, great! If you feel the students get adequate and accurate basic information from a text and your handouts, terrific! If they engage in higher-level thinking and develop authentic learning products they already share with the real world, you're doing an outstanding job! If you see a gap in any of these aspects, think about choosing a WebQuest to fill that need.
Evaluate the following WebQuests using the rubric or for strengths and weaknesses.
Rubrics to use for evaluation
http://www.ozline.com/webquests/rubric.htmlhttp://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
http://www.udel.edu/sine/webquests/wqevalsht.html (blank form for writing)
Are Asteroids Coming?
http://wapiti.pvs.k12.nm.us/~Computer/asteroid.html
A Magical Day in the Magical Kingdom
http://www.vcsc.k12.in.us/staff/hackneyl/mkwebquest/
In the Time of the Old Ones
http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/services/educational/cctechnology/webquest/oldones.html
Create a Super Hero
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq104
American Presidents
http://kathyschrock.net/webquest/RONAN/index.htm
Adventure Into the Unknown: A Webquest on the
Lewis and Clark Expedition
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/lewisclark/
WebQuests Collections Page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.ht
Matrix of WebQuests
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html
Guilford County Schools, NC
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/index.htm
Jackie Carrigan's WebQuest collection
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webquest.htm
WebQuest Collection
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/class/webquest.html
Welcome to Webquests
http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/
More collections
http://www.emtech.net/webquests.html
http://www.baylor.edu/~Andrew_Milson/webquest.htmhttp://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/webquest.html
Teachers First.com
http://www.teachersfirst.com/webquest.htm
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic4.htm
Evaluating/Assessing
Student Work 
Process Guides
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processguides/index.htm
Sample Rubrics
http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/rubrics/Default.htm
Rubrics for Web Lessons and other resources
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm
RubiStar: develop and save your own rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
More About WebQuests
Disney/Thirteen partnership: Webquests Class
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month8/index.html
In-depth information written as a class - you can even get credit!
Tom March's site: productivity and more about
Webquests
http://ozline.com/learning/index.htm
See Lots More Information
on the Creating WebQuests
page
or check out these Links!
5 rules for Writing a Great WebQuest, by Bernie Dodge
http://www.iste.org/L&L/28/8/featuredarticle/dodge/index.html
Creating a WebQuest: It's Easier than you Think
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech011.shtml
WebQuest Design Map
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/Process/WebQuestDesignProcess.html
Webquest Template
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/templates/lesson-template1.htm
Web-and-Flow:
Tom March's new development site
http://www.web-and-flow.com/