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The World’s Quickest WebQuest ???????????

Are you ready for. The World’s Quickest WebQuest ???????????. @2005 - B. J. Dodge - May not be used without permission. The Martian HaikuQuest. Introduction. Japan is quietly preparing the technologies that will enable the settling of Mars in the last years of this new century.

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The World’s Quickest WebQuest ???????????

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  1. Are you ready for... The World’s Quickest WebQuest ??????????? @2005 - B. J. Dodge - May not be used without permission

  2. The Martian HaikuQuest

  3. Introduction • Japan is quietly preparing the technologies that will enable the settling of Mars in the last years of this new century. • To help establish a link in the public mind between Japan and Mars, Sony is sponsoring a worldwide contest for the best Haiku written about the Red Planet.

  4. The Task • To win the contest, write a haiku that successfully captures the rugged beauty of Mars while staying within the spirit of the haiku form. • Do it well, and the 1 Million Yen prize is yours!

  5. The Process • 1. First learn about the haiku form: • Three short lines • 5-7-5 syllables in Japanese • Often alludes to a season or nature • Captures the essence of a particular moment while giving it a surprising twist

  6. The Process • Some example haiku Along this road Goes no one, This autumn eve

  7. The Process • Some example haiku daffodils open around my mailbox but no letter

  8. The Process • Some example haiku In the sun the butterfly wings like a church window

  9. The Process • 2. You will work in teams of two. • One person is to study graphic images of Mars and think of metaphors for the features they see. • The second person is to look at factual, scientific information about Mars and think of how these might be used in a poem.

  10. Process • Here are your simulated web pages.One person is to look only at the left side of the screen, the other only to the right. You will not have time to study both sides of the screen, so focus on your own task.

  11. Like Mercury, Venus and Earth, Mars is mostly rock and metal. Mountains and craters scar the rugged terrain.

  12. The dust, an iron oxide, gives the planet its reddish cast.

  13. Thin atmosphere and an elliptical orbit combine to create temperature fluctuations ranging from minus 207 degrees Fahrenheit to a comfortable 80 degrees Fahrenheit on summer days at the equator.

  14. Mars was most likely warm and wet about 3.7 billion years ago. But as the planet cooled, the water froze. Remnants exist as ice caps at the poles

  15. Compared to Earth: • Mass: 11% of Earth's • Diameter: 53% of Earth's • Distance from sun: 1.5 times as far

  16. Percival Lowell, an amateur astronomer who studied Mars into the early 1900s, thought he saw canals that must have been dug by inhabitants. Upon closer examination with modern telescopes and planetary probes, they turned out to be optical illusions.

  17. The Process • 3. Share your impressions with your partner. Draft your Haiku tying together both the facts and visual impressions.

  18. Issues experienced in this simulation • Interdependence • No time for surfing • More resources brought into the discussion by working in parallel • Scaffolding • Taking advantage of the web’s timeliness and colorfulness • Transformation of information, not simply retelling

  19. Why teach this way? Because tomorrow’s adults will need to… • think together • think for themselves • know how to teach themselves new tricks • make sense of information they’ve never seen before • generate their own questions and know how to find the answers

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