Teachers:

Webquests

Mysterious People and Places

Task
Procedures
Conclusion
Evaluation

Anasazi
Cahokia
Easter Island
Inca
Maya

Teachers

 

This Webquest was designed for 5th and 6th grade gifted students. It could easily be used with 7th & 8th grade students or modified for use in the regular classroom.

One of my primary goals was to have the students analyze the web sites as to the quality, currency and authenticity of the content. There are some web links included that are less than 'top-notch'. If you wanted to eliminate this element of the webquest, you might need to screen the sites given and limit them further so that only the quality content remains.

Credits

Easter Island
Moai heads
http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html
Row of Moai
http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/easter_island/about_destin/culture1.html

Map of Cahokia
http://www.bellevalley.stclair.k12.il.us/bvfair/cmhist.htm
Monk’s Mound
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/up/upi.html

  http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/chaco_canyon.html
  Supernova petroglyph
Possible petrographs: 1054 Supernova (now Crab Nebula) above, Halley's comet below. photo by Ron Lussier
http://www.chaco.com/park/archaeology/nebula.htm
Kokopelli
http://www.grand-canyon-inn.com/kokopelli.htm

  http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~ogburn/inca/inca.htm
Machu Picchu
http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/~ogburn/inca/achieve.htm

  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html
General View of Palenque ©1996 by Edward Dawson
http://www.dallas.net/~lalo/palenque.html
Temple of the Incriptions
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hst/maya/palenque.html