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WebQuests

What is a WebQuest?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet. It is typically a group activity and can be single discipline or interdisciplinary in nature.
Bernie Dodge (creator of WebQuests) talks about two kinds of WebQuests:

• Short Term - acquisition and integration of knowledge

Treasure Hunts
Subject Samplers

These can both be considered short term WebQuests.

• Long Term - extending and refining knowledge

WebQuests

These can take between a week and a month or more to complete and generally result in a product.

Either kind of WebQuest should be designed to focus the learner on using information rather than searching for it.

Groups of our teachers attended a summer camp, WIRED 2000 (Web-based Inquiry and REsearch Design) and WIRED 2001.
*Take a look at the WebQuests they created.......... (These projects are "works in progress")

WIRED 2000

• Hispanic Holidays - 5th Grade Spanish and Social Studies

• Cinco Sites and Souvenirs From Mexico - Art and Social Studies

• Postcards From the Edge - of the USA! - 5th Grade Social Studies

• Share a Smile..... Send a Letter - Kindergarten Literacy Skills

WIRED 2001

• Flat Stanley's Travels - A Subject Sampler for 1st Grade

• Meet Hermit Crab and his Friends - A Treasure Hunt for 1st Grade

• North Carolina on my Mind - A WebQuest for 4th Grade

• Watt's Next? - A High Voltage WebQuest for 5th Grade 

WIRED 2002

• The Outer Banks of North Carolina

WIRED 2003 

• Global Traveler

WIRED 2004

• Switch On Literacy!

Projects 2005

Endangered Animals A WebQuest for 5th Grade by Kelly Pasour - Student Teacher

Tech Project 2007

Biomes of North America

eMints Sample

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