Web_quest_project

**“Why is our literary past important to us now?”** **Purpose**: The purpose of doing a Web Quest is to learn about a topic by searching the web for answers to questions that have been provided by the creator of the Web Quest. In this assignment, you are the Web Quest creator. Try to make it fun by sending your audience to cool pictures, movie clips, sound bites and strange sites with interesting facts so that others can learn something about your topic. Instructions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? You must write questions yourself. Better, more complex questions will earn you more points. You will present this online activity in class to individual students on the presentation day. You must get your project scored before that day! Web Quest Project Name _________________________ date _____________ Class ______ Topic of your Web Quest __________________________ Answer Key (for the questions you wrote) Who? What? 2. ___________________________________________________  When? 3. ___________________________________________________  Where? 4. ___________________________________________________  Why? 5. ___________________________________________________  How? 6. ___________________________________________________   Web Quest Creator: Vary the difficulty level of the questions. When finished, please attach the Web Quest rubric to this worksheet and this project scored BEOFRE the presentation day. On the day of the presentations, you will set an internet station with your question sheet and have one student at a time follow your Web Quest and answer your questions. Each partner needs to report the correct answer to you before moving on to the next question. Please elaborate and explain your questions or the answers if needed. Web Quest Project Title: ________________________________________ Partner Instructions: Read the question. Go to the website. Find the answer. Report the answer to the Web Quest creator. Ask if you have questions. Initial below when finished. Questions: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Website: ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Website: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Website: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Website: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Website: ____________________________________________________ Participant Initials: _____ Chapter 1 Encounters and Foundations to 1800 __Web Quest__ project Rubric Name _______________________ Class _____________ date ________ Chapter 1 topic ________________________________ Please attach this rubric to your Web Quest question sheet. Get it scored with your teacher ASAP! ||  Some websites are very loosely tied to the topic, but have at least one interesting visual or sound   ||   All the websites are plain, or don’t relate to the topic   || Score:
 * Chapter 1 Encounters and Foundations to 1800 __Web Quest Project Instruction Sheet__ **
 * 1)  Sign up for a topic in class (no repeats)
 * 2)  Fill out the Web Quest worksheet
 * 3)  Find 6 DIFFERENT (and interesting) sites online that answers questions about your topic. The questions are…
 * 1) __________________________________________________
 * 1)  Who…
 * 1)  What…
 * 1)  Where…
 * 1)  When…
 * 1)  Why?
 * 1)  How?
 * Category  ||   20/Excellent   ||   10/Good   ||   Incomplete/unacceptable   ||
 * __ Presentation __ ||   Excellent! Enthusiastic speaker with an interesting presentation. Also an attentive listener   ||   OK   ||   Absent on the day of the presentation   ||
 * __ Questions: __ The content is appropriate and requires thinking skills  ||   The questions are crisp, clear, and easy to read. At least some questions require higher thinking skills   ||   The questions’ content appears to be appropriate, but the question is difficult to understand   ||   All the questions are either far above, or far below, students’ comprehension ability. OR the material is not appropriate for school.   ||
 * __ Cool Stuff: __ Some graphics, sound, animation, and/or pictures are included  ||   Graphics, and/or sounds and/or animation are very appropriate. They lend additional information or motivation without detracting from the message
 * __ Learning: __ This Web Quest teaches what it’s supposed to.  ||   Students are enlightened as well as entertained from this Web Quest   ||   Students can gain a basic understanding of the topic   ||   It is unclear that students can learn anything from the activity   ||
 * __ Websites: __ They work correctly and are appropriate  ||   All links to your resources are appropriate and working   ||   Most links work fine, but there is at least one that doesn’t work or goes to the wrong site.   ||   There are numerous problems in the links to the resources. Many of the links either don’t work, or point to irrelevant sites.   ||