1. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Student Pages Put the Title of the Lesson Here A WebQuest/KnowledgeQuest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here) Designed by: Put Your Name Here Put Your E-mail Address Here Put your School Name and Link Here Put Date Here

2. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Directions for Students  Click once OR press the space key to advance to the next slide  Press the backspace key to go back one slide  Use the buttons at the bottom of each slide to go back and review any steps AFTER you have gone through all slides individually.  Follow the directions on each slide

3. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Introduction for Students  This document should be written with the student as the intended audience. Write a short paragraph here to introduce the activity or lesson to the students. If there is a role or scenario involved (e.g., "You are a detective trying to identify the mysterious poet.") then here is where you'll set the stage. If there's no motivational intro like that, use this section to provide a short advance organizer or overview. Remember that the purpose of this section is to both prepare and hook the reader.  It is also in this section that you'll communicate the Big Question (Essential Question, Guiding Question) that the whole project is centered around.

4. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Task for Students… Describe crisply and clearly what the end result of the learners' activities will be. The task could be a:  Problem or mystery to be solved  Position to be formulated and defended  Product to be designed  Complexity to be analyzed  Personal insight to be articulated…

5. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens …The Task for Students … …the task could be a:  Summary to be created  Persuasive message or journalistic account to be crafted  A creative work, or  Anything that requires the learners to process and transform the information they've gathered

6. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens …The Task for Students  If the final project involves using some tool (e.g. HyperStudio, the Web, video), mention it here.  Don't list the steps that students will go through to get to the end point. That belongs in the Process section.

7. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  To accomplish the task, what steps should the learners go through? Use the numbered list format in PowerPoint to automatically number the steps in the procedure. Describing this section well will help other teachers to see how your lesson flows and how they might adapt it for their own use, so the more detail and care you put into this, the better.

8. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  Remember that this whole document is addressed to the student, however, so describe the steps using the second person. –First you'll be assigned to a team of three students... –Once you've picked a role to play.... –... and so on.

9. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  Learners will access the on-line resources that you've identified as they go through the Process. You may have a set of links that everyone looks at as a way of developing background information, or not.

10. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  If you break learners into groups, embed the links that each group will look at within the description of that stage of the process.

11. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  In the Process block, you might also provide some guidance on how to organize the information gathered. This advice could include suggestions to use flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or other organizing structures.

12. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens The Process for Students  The advice could also take the form of a checklist of questions to analyze the information with, or things to notice or think about. If you have identified or prepared guide documents on the Web that cover specific skills needed for this lesson (e.g. how to brainstorm, how to prepare to interview an expert), link them to this section.

13. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Evaluation for Students  Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades.  Click the link for the Evaluation Rubric document. Evaluation RubricEvaluation Rubric

14. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Conclusion for Students  Put a couple of sentences here that summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this activity or lesson. You might also include some rhetorical questions or additional links to encourage them to extend their thinking into other content beyond this lesson

15. IntroTaskProcessEvaluationConclusionCreditsTeacher Screens Credits & References  List here the sources of any images, music or text that you're using. Provide links back to the original source. Say thanks to anyone who provided resources or help.  List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.  Include the link back to the AAM-Colorado page, so that others can acquire the latest version of this template and training materials.  Template created 2005 by An Adventure of the American Mind – Colorado. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page and a PowerPoint project created by Sandy Breed, Library Information Specialist at Golden High School, Golden, CO. An Adventure of the American Mind – ColoradoThe WebQuest PageGolden High SchoolAn Adventure of the American Mind – ColoradoThe WebQuest PageGolden High School

16. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Designed by: Put Your Name Here Put Your E-mail Address Here Put your School Name and Link Here Put Date Here Teacher Pages Put the Title of the Lesson Here A WebQuest/KnowledgeQuest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here)

17. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluationDirections  Click once OR press the space key to advance to the next slide  Press the backspace key to go back one slide  Use the buttons at the bottom of each slide to go back and review any steps AFTER you have gone through all slides individually.  Follow the directions on each slide

18. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluationIntroduction  Begin with something that describes the origin of the lesson. For example: This lesson was developed as part of the San Diego Unified School District's Triton Project, a federally funded Technology Innovation Challenge Grant.  In this second paragraph of the introduction, describe briefly what the lesson is about. Remember, the audience for this document is other teachers, not students.

19. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation About Your Learners  Describe the grade level and course that the lesson is designed to cover. For example: "This lesson is anchored in seventh grade language arts and involves social studies and math to a lesser extent." If the lesson can easily be extended to additional grades and subjects, mention that briefly here as well.  Describe what the learners will need to know prior to beginning this lesson. Limit this description to the most critical skills that could not be picked up on the fly as the lesson is given.

20. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Learning Standards…  What will students learn as a result of this lesson? Describe the outcomes succinctly. Use the language of existing standards. For example: Social Studies Standards Addressed: –Recognize the relationships among the various parts of a nation's cultural life. –Learn about the mythology, legends, values and beliefs of a people. –Learn about the mythology, legends, values and beliefs of a people.

21. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation …Learning Standards  Most lessons don't just teach a block of content; they also implicitly teach one or more types of thinking. In addition to describing learning outcomes within traditional subject areas, describe what kind of thinking and communications skills were encouraged by this lesson. Inference-making? Critical thinking? Creative production? Creative problem-solving? Observation and categorization? Comparison? Teamwork? Compromise?

22. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation The Process  Describe briefly how the lesson is organized. Does it involve more than one class? Is it all taught in one period per day, or is it part of several periods? How many days or weeks will it take? Is it single disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or what?

23. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation The Process  If students are divided into groups, provide guidelines on how you might do that  If there are misconceptions or stumbling blocks that you anticipate, describe them here and suggest ways to get around them.

24. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation The Process  What skills does a teacher need in order to pull this lesson off? Is it easy enough for a novice teacher? Does it require some experience with directing debates or role plays, for example?

25. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation The Process  Variations: If you can think of ways to vary the way the lesson might be carried out in different situations (lab vs. in-class, for example), describe them here.

26. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Resources Needed  Describe what's needed to implement this lesson. Some of the possibilities: –Class sets of books –E-mail accounts for all students –Specific software (how many copies?) –Specific hardware (what kind? How many?) –Specific reference material in the classroom or school library –Video or audio materials

27. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Resources Needed  If the lesson makes extensive use of specific websites, it would be appropriate to list, describe and link them here.  It would also be helpful to link the names of books suggested to Amazon or other online sources.

28. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Resources Needed  Describe also the human resources needed. How many teachers are needed to implement the lesson. Is one enough? Is there a role for aides or parents in the room? Do you need to coordinate with a teacher at another school? With a partner in industry or a museum or other entity? Is a field trip designed in as part of the lesson?

29. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluationEvaluation  How will you know that this lesson was successful? Describe what student products or performances you'll be looking at and how they'll be evaluated. This, of course, should be tightly related to the standards and objectives you cited above.  Click the link for the Evaluation Rubric document. Evaluation RubricEvaluation Rubric

30. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluationConclusion  Make some kind of summary statement here about the worthiness of this lesson and the importance of what it will teach.

31. IntroLearnersStandardsResourcesConclusionCreditsStudent ScreensProcessEvaluation Credits & References  List here the sources of any images, music or text that you're using. Provide links back to the original source. Say thanks to anyone who provided resources or help.  List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.  Include the link back to the AAM-Colorado page, so that others can acquire the latest version of this template and training materials.  Template created 2005 by An Adventure of the American Mind – Colorado. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page and a PowerPoint project created by Sandy Breed, Library Information Specialist at Golden High School, Golden, CO. An Adventure of the American Mind – ColoradoThe WebQuest PageGolden High SchoolAn Adventure of the American Mind – ColoradoThe WebQuest PageGolden High School