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