WEBQUEST Using the Internet for an Inquiry-based Learning

Why WebQuest? Here is a story WebQuests: A strategy for scaffolding higher level learning An article entitle "the student WebQuest" by Maureen brown Yoder, April l l A quick review of the original WebQuest concept homepage

Two Types of WebQuest  Short term instructional goals oKnowledge acquisition, higher order thinking and integration oLearners have to make sense of a significant amount of new information oCan be completed from one to three class periods  Long term instructional goals oExtend and refine knowledge through a higher order thinking process over a period of time oLearners analyze and transform the body of knowledge into their own way of understanding, then have to demonstrate their understanding in some forms oCan be completed from one week to a month

Components of a WebQuest Building Blocks of a WebQuest Introduction: orients learners to what to be expected 2.Tasks: instructs learners what to do 3.The process: provides steps or strategies 4.Evaluation: primarily with rubrics Resources: keep learners focus with pre-selected web pages, (or books, videos and CD-ROMs) 6.Conclusion: summarize, reflect, extend and generalize about the learning process to demonstrate understanding

Tutorials  A roadmap for developing WebQuests  Five rules for writing great WebQuests html html  A WebQuest on creating a WebQuest  Webquest 101 – putting discovery into the curriculum a.shtml a.shtml

More on Tutorials  Disney has created a WebQuest tutorial to walk you through the critical components of a WebQuest ndex.html ndex.html  A taxonomy of tasks  Training materials  If you want to design WebQuest as web pages (only if you understand web design), here are templates

Ideas for Lesson Plan The best web resources for classroom WebQuest lesson plans s.html s.html Matrix of examples A good example QuestMolluskPage.html QuestMolluskPage.html The WebQuest Connection

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