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WEBQUESTUsing the Internet for
an Inquiry-based Learning
Why WebQuest?• Here is a story http://www.ozline.com/webquests
/intro.html • WebQuests: A strategy for scaffolding higher level
learning http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/necc98.htm • An article entitle "the student WebQuest" by Maureen
brown Yoder, April 1999 http://www.iste.org/L&L/26/7/features/yoder/index.html
• A quick review of the original WebQuest concept homepage http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
Two Types of WebQuest Short term instructional
goalso Knowledge acquisition,
higher order thinking and integration
o Learners have to make sense of a significant amount of new information
o Can be completed from one to three class periods
Long term instructional goalso Extend and refine
knowledge through a higher order thinking process over a period of time
o Learners analyze and transform the body of knowledge into their own way of understanding, then have to demonstrate their understanding in some forms
o Can be completed from one week to a month
Components of a WebQuest Building Blocks of a WebQuest
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/webquest/buildingblocks.html
1. Introduction: orients learners to what to be expected
2. Tasks: instructs learners what to do
3. The process: provides steps or strategies
4. Evaluation: primarily with rubrics http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html
5. Resources: keep learners focus with pre-selected web pages, (or books, videos and CD-ROMs)
6. Conclusion: summarize, reflect, extend and generalize about the learning process to demonstrate understanding
Tutorials
A roadmap for developing WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/roadmap/index.htm
Five rules for writing great WebQuestshttp://www.iste.org/L&L/28/8/featuredarticle/dodge/index.html
A WebQuest on creating a WebQuest http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/teacher_quest/
Webquest 101 – putting discovery into the curriculum http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
More on Tutorials Disney has created a WebQuest tutorial to walk you
through the critical components of a WebQuest http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month8/index.html
A taxonomy of tasks http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskonomy.html
Training materials http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm
If you want to design WebQuest as web pages (only if you understand web design), here are templates http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/LessonTemplate.html
Ideas for Lesson Plan
• The best web resources for classroom WebQuest lesson plans http://www.teachertidbytes.com/WebLessonPlans.html
• Matrix of examples http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html
• A good example http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/ohes/bratcherMol/WebQuestMolluskPage.html
• The WebQuest Connection http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/webquestslinks/
WEBQUEST
Bon Voyage!