Wonderful Worldof Webquests

Kristen Wheat

&

Kimberly Massengale

Discuss CCSS Performance Tasks

Describe Performance-Based Tasks and Webquests

Complete a “Webquest on Webquests”

Post your findings on Today’s Meet

Decide what makes a Webquest effective

Debrief and complete session survey

Our Purpose Today…

CCSS & Performance Tasks

As part of the CCSS Assessment, students in grades 3-12 will complete up to 5 performance tasks each year.

measure understanding, research skills, analysis, and the ability to provide relevant evidence

measure complex assessment targetsdemonstrate ability to think and reason

require higher-order thinking skillsallow for multiple approaches for collecting evidence of a student’s knowledge and abilities

use real-world contextsintegrate knowledge and skillsrequire students to plan, write,

edit, and revise their results

What does this look like?• Student-Guided Discoveries – teacher becomes the “Guide on the Side”

• Inquiry is built into daily plan-

"Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning and synthesizing information."

• Training of students in Performance-based Tasks like …WEBQUESTS

What is a Webquest?• A webquest is an assignment which asks

students to use the World Wide Web to learn about and/or synthesize their knowledge on a

specific topic • A “true” webquest, as originally designed by Bernie Dodge and Tom March, requires synthesis of the new

knowledge by accomplishing a “task,” often to solve a hypothetical problem or address a real-world issue

Webquest 101 http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-b.shtml

What is a Webquest?• Simpler web activit ies designed for students to investigate and collect new knowledge from web-based sources can also be a more engaging

and effective replacement for read-the-chapter-and-complete-the-review-questions.

Webquest 101 http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-b.shtml

• The quality of your webquest depends on the ideas and thought that go into it more than on flashy presentation technologies. It’s easy to create a mediocre webquest, and it’s far more difficult to create a quest that really works well.

A Research “Quest”

An easy way to create a structured research opportunity for student-guided

inquiry is to create a Webquest using

Educator Pages

Pros: You can create pages for FREE

Cons: You will start from scratch and have no on-site guidance

A True Webquest contains…• A "road map." This is the list of web sites or locations which you want your students to visit. This section should include an introduction which

explains the purpose of the webquest and the object of the search, hunt, or other "hook" that you’ve built into your quest. 

Webquest 101 http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-b.shtml

A True Webquest contains…• A task sheet. Depending on the structure of your quest, this sheet could be a rubric, answer sheet, or even a list of clues. Regardless of the precise structure, however, this sheet is used to record the results

of the quest. There may be one sheet per student or one per group, depending on how you want students to complete the assignment.

Webquest 101 http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-b.shtml

A True Webquest contains…• A summary presentation. Good webquests require students to show what they have learned. Remember that the web is a multimedia tool, and if you

can allow students a wide range of flexibility in presenting their findings, you will carry this approach back into the classroom long after the computers are turned off.

• This is where inquiry and Performance-Based Tasks play an important role

Webquest on Webquests

Your Task:

-Work with your team to complete

Your role in the “Webquest on Webquests”

-Once you have completed the quest, you will respond to the questions on “Today’s Meet”

www.todaysmeet.com/2013meca

Let’s Explore…

Where do we begin?

Choose your task and Standards then choose a platform…such as…

Questgarden.com or zunal.com

meca2013 webquest

Spark Learning Solutions LLC

www.providingthespark.com

Click on the “members” tab and complete the Meca 2013 Survey

Thank you for participating!!

ResourcesInquiry--

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html

Webquest 101—http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-b.shtml

Webquest Video Series--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyht-ehlAWY