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WebQuest Assignment
In groups of no more than 3 students will develop a WebQuest (a format for using the Internet as a source of information in text-based research projects) for a unit of study within a secondary classroom. (30 percent of final grade). Use the structure of this WebQuest (Problem, Task, Procedures and Guidelines, Resources and Examples, Final Questions) as the structure for your WebQuest.
The WebQuest assignment that your group is to design is one that will provide secondary students with a task and some resources for learning about a topic of your choice. The WebQuest should consist of, at minimum, an introduction to the topic, an interesting and engaging (and hopefully creative, inventive) task, a set of resources (i.e., websites) for learning about the topic and completing the task, a process for completing that task, some guidance in the form of charts, timeline, etc., and a conclusion with some suggestions for dissemination and extension of the task beyond this WebQuest.
To produce your WQ, you’ll need to do a search of websites on your topic, get a sense yourselves of the dimensions of the issues, come up with an interesting task for the WQ, describe the process students will go through, provide them with some directions, and think about where this project could go beyond this level of research.
PLEASE NOTE: The critical feature that makes a WebQuest educationally powerful and that we will be looking for in evaluating this assignment is an engaging TASK that requires students to fully process (synthesize, analyze, and evaluate, not merely repeat) information that they find on the Internet. Our strong advice, therefore, is to begin with devising a task and then build the other components of the WebQuest around that. All of the WebQuests listed on the course website meet the criterion of an engaging task; please study those.
Second, please remember that a WebQuest should not be overly complicated to be good. Giving students a task that requires them to complete 5, 6, or even 10 steps to be successful is probably too complicated. Come up with a simple but clever task requiring students to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate information on a topic, and the rest of your WebQuest will fall into place.
Use Weebly.com or another web page service to compose your WebQuest. Again, interdisciplinary groups who compose an interdisciplinary WebQuest will receive two points extra credit.
WebQuest Assignment
In groups of no more than 3 students will develop a WebQuest (a format for using the Internet as a source of information in text-based research projects) for a unit of study within a secondary classroom. (30 percent of final grade). Use the structure of this WebQuest (Problem, Task, Procedures and Guidelines, Resources and Examples, Final Questions) as the structure for your WebQuest.
The WebQuest assignment that your group is to design is one that will provide secondary students with a task and some resources for learning about a topic of your choice. The WebQuest should consist of, at minimum, an introduction to the topic, an interesting and engaging (and hopefully creative, inventive) task, a set of resources (i.e., websites) for learning about the topic and completing the task, a process for completing that task, some guidance in the form of charts, timeline, etc., and a conclusion with some suggestions for dissemination and extension of the task beyond this WebQuest.
To produce your WQ, you’ll need to do a search of websites on your topic, get a sense yourselves of the dimensions of the issues, come up with an interesting task for the WQ, describe the process students will go through, provide them with some directions, and think about where this project could go beyond this level of research.
PLEASE NOTE: The critical feature that makes a WebQuest educationally powerful and that we will be looking for in evaluating this assignment is an engaging TASK that requires students to fully process (synthesize, analyze, and evaluate, not merely repeat) information that they find on the Internet. Our strong advice, therefore, is to begin with devising a task and then build the other components of the WebQuest around that. All of the WebQuests listed on the course website meet the criterion of an engaging task; please study those.
Second, please remember that a WebQuest should not be overly complicated to be good. Giving students a task that requires them to complete 5, 6, or even 10 steps to be successful is probably too complicated. Come up with a simple but clever task requiring students to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate information on a topic, and the rest of your WebQuest will fall into place.
Use Weebly.com or another web page service to compose your WebQuest. Again, interdisciplinary groups who compose an interdisciplinary WebQuest will receive two points extra credit.