WebQuests create
great thinkers!
Questions?
email: cathygrim@aol.com
What will be covered:
- What a WebQuest is
- Who is Bernie Dodge
- How to do a good search
- Kid-friendly search engines
- Why a WebQuest
- Samples of WebQuests
- Templates for making a WebQuest
How Do You Start
- Learn to do a good search
- Student Search Engines
- Teacher Search Engines
- New York Times: Cyber Navigator:
- LibrarySpot
- AltaVista (Good Translator)
- Northern Light
- Dogpile
- Yahoo
- metacrawler
- Go to
- My plump starfish quickly lowered Lincoln's tie
What types of WebQuests are there?
- Short Term WebQuests
The instructional goal of a short term WebQuest is knowledge acquisition and integration, described as Dimension 2 in Marzano's (1992) Dimensions of Thinking model. At the end of a short term WebQuest, a learner will have grappled with a significant amount of new information and made sense of it. A short-term WebQuest is designed to be completed in one to three class periods. - Longer Term WebQuest
The instructional goal of a longer term WebQuest is what Marzano calls Dimension 3: extending and refining knowledge. After completing a longer term WebQuest, a learner would have analyzed a body of knowledge deeply, transformed it in some way, and demonstrated an understanding of the material by creating something that others can respond to, on-line or off-. A longer term WebQuest will typically take between one week and a month in a classroom setting.
Resources
- Resources for
Teachers
Resources
for Kids
- Amazing Picture Machine
- Animation Factory--some free images that aren't bad
- Google Images
- Clipart Collection
- Dictionaries
- Little Explorers: Picture Dictionary
- Maps
Sample WebQuest
- WebQuests Examples Elementary through High School
- WebQuest Examples through Teach-nology
- Will that Volcano Spoil our Party--good example of a webquest
- A non-digital example of a webquest--The Three Sisters
- Tee Time: Golf Course in Perth Amboy
- More WebQuest Examples -- elementary
- Ocean WebQuest
- Social Studies and Geography WebQuests
- Ancient Egypt: Learn about it
- WebQuests recommended by NJPEP (New Jersey Professional Educational Port)
- Good Bernie Dodge Links
So you want to make a WebQuest
- WebQuest Forms--The arm and hammer stuff. What do you teach? Where are there websites with information? What resources will your students need? What should they find here? What do you want the students to learn? How do you want them to learn?
- A WebQuest
Template--A template outline of a WebQuest divided into
- Introduction
- The Task
- Resources
- The Process
- Learning Advice
- Conclusion
- A WebQuest about making Webquest
- Bernie Dodge (Father of the WebQuest) discusses the Building Blocks of Web Quests.
- Another template of a WebQuest.
- A diagram of a WebQuest.
- Creating a WebPage for Class using Teacher Web
- Create your own web page on Freeservers.com
- Create your own web pages using expage.com
About WebQuests
- WebQuest Taskonomy--emphasis is on the TASK. Here are examples of what you should be getting out of a WebQuest.
- The Bernie Dodge Page
- Everything Webquests--excellent site for understanding WebQuests.
Articles
A good article by Jamie McKenzie about Module learning