1. Summer 1 Design II - Masters Course
Project Description
Rocky Shore Field Trip “Web Quest”

2. Where I Started The plan was to…
”organize a web quest of sorts for the students to work through. …to remove the parts where I just “talk” at them and replace it with seeded queries that result in their learning the material almost by osmosis”.

3. Lesson Plans… Food Webs Abiotic/biotic interrelationships
Intro to Classification
Identification of rocky shore organisms
Zonation of the rocky shore
Sampling techniques
Data collection – temperatures, density, salinity,volume, area

4. The Problem…
Too Aggressive a Goal !

5. Where I Ended Up
After a couple of weeks, and with a fair amount of panic as an incentive, I came to the conclusion that if any headway were to be made I was going to have to redefine the depth to which I was going to proceed.
…to focus more on the preparation for the field trip itself. This was still in keeping with my earlier design in that the final result is a more user friendly document that was based in technology – namely a web page.

6. Beliefs Regarding Technology Integration
…technology is a necessary tool for education.
“A poor carpenter blames his tools”.
…Don’t be so quick to discard something simply because you haven’t dedicated enough time to understanding the hidden value.