Week 10 WebQuest: Empower Your Students with Discovery (II) Project #5 Web Quest

Phase II: Create a Meaningful and Exciting Web Quest for the Kids

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To do this week

1. Tackle the Content Part: viewing examplary Web Quest and Design Your Own Web Quest that Enlivens and Entertains Kids Critical Thinking

It takes time and energy, and most of all, it take creativity and deep thinking to create a good web quest

1.1 Examples from your peers: webquest projects by your peers: an exemplary webQuest by Jessica Hill's group. Dinae's WebQuest Group even created an intereactive Task Page. And more examples from the links to the Showcase on the left navigation bar. To find the WebQuest projects examples, go to individual ePorfolios, find their Technology Projects pages, and then click the links to their WebQuest projects.

1.2 Examples from the BestWebQuest, designed by Dr. Tom March, the leading figure in Web Quest study

Visit, click examples of different subjects (please note that links to many web quests might not be working, because individuals on internet have the right not to maintain their websites).

Here are some examples from the above BestWebQuest link:

History and Social Sciences:

What Makes Someone Great? Or go directly to the site: http://www.vickiwright.com/wq/index.htm

Social Security: A New Challenge for the 21st Century. Or go directly to the site: http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/soc_sec/

Sciences

Breaking News... Reporting From the Edge of Disaster Or go directly to the site: http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/itech/webquests/su2003elem/ringgenberg/greencomicsans/index.html

Destination Unknown (A webquest for 3rd grade Science) Or go directly to the site: http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/itech/webquests/su2003elem/colbert/skyarial/index.html

A Balancing Act - Sharing Our World With the Grizzly Bear Or go directly to the site: http://kingedward.epsb.ca/grizzlywebquest/

Raging Waters! (for Secondary Earth Science) Or go directly to the site: http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RagingWaters/

2. Do the Webquest Project in Groups: Project Phase II

Phase II: Create a Meaningful and Exciting Web Quest for the Kids