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Webquests

Webquests. Creating Independent Learners: a lesson plan for students. It starts with the INTRODUCTION. This is basically your objectives and the anticipatory set. It peeks their interest.

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Webquests

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  1. Webquests Creating Independent Learners: a lesson plan for students

  2. It starts with the INTRODUCTION • This is basically your objectives and the anticipatory set. • It peeks their interest. • The key is this, along with everything else, is written informally.

  3. Then you add the TASK • This is their assessment. • It’s what you want them to have done at the end of the lesson.

  4. Next is the PROCESS • This is the guided practice. • You tell the students how they should complete the task and what steps they need to follow. • Then they begin their independent practice.

  5. Give them the RESOURCES • These are the materials needed for the lesson. • Where they need to look for the information needed to complete the task.

  6. Add the EVALUATION • This is how you’re going to grade it. • This way the students know what to shoot for before they even start the project. • They can even grade each other.

  7. And finally the CONCLUSION • Here’s your closure. • You summarize what they’ve accomplished. • You can ask them to reflect upon the process or what they’ve learned.

  8. You don’t have to be a technology guru • A webquest can be done on Trackstar, in PowerPoint, in Word, or on the web. • Better yet, there are loads of them already made.

  9. Making one in Trackstar • Trackstar helps you monitor the sites your students use and takes about 15 minutes to make. • Just find your URLs ahead of time and follow the directions. • Your task, process, etc. would be typed and given to the students.

  10. In PowerPoint or Word • Type the information you want on each slide or page. Highlight anything you want, insert the hyperlink, and you can send the students to the web, a file, or another slide or page.

  11. Helpful Resources For You • THE webquest page with definitions and instructions: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/ • Trackstar to monitor your sites: http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ • A webquest with everything in it but customized for a class: http://www.timecapsule.homestead.com/home.html

  12. A little bit of everything from picking links, to templates, to ideas for tasks, to a webquest maker: http://www.ozline.com/learning/index.htm and http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html

  13. Ready to use Webquests • http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html • http://www.cl.ais.net/rlevine/coolunits.htm#WEBQUESTS • http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webqu est_collections.htm

  14. Rubrics • Ready-to-use rubrics: http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/rubrics/Default.htm • Rubric maker: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ • Links, rubrics, and questions builders: http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php3

  15. Benefits: Students • discover what you want them to know and then some. • are actively involved in the learning. • teach themselves and others. • are using higher level thinking skills.

  16. Benefits to you: webquests • Free up formal instruction time. • Allow your focus to be on students who need help or support. • Teach the ultimate goal: students to be independent learners. • Allow you to see just how much your students can do. • sandelj@gcschools.net

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