4.+Webquests

· Chris Mahar- Webquest · [] · This website can be a great resource for Junior High students. Once you get to the website it has a list of many different web quests for the students and it challenges and questions them. All of the activities listed are for people to work in a group of people or just a partner. All of the instructions given for each task is clearly stated in order and easy to follow so the students should not have any trouble creating the presentations they may have to perform. They have a lot of thing’s that would be able to tie into the subject, but they also have a lot of non- school related topics to choose from which I think can be counted as a con of the website.
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Eric Greiner – Teacher Tap [|http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic4.htm#1] This website would be a very useful resource for many different teachers of many age groups. It has information on what makes web quests good and how to find the right ones. It has many different links to lots of different websites with quest links. I tried out some of the links and it seemed like the links I was getting were coming up and reliable. I also found reviews on certain ones saying how useful the quest was for students. This site also has all different school subjects with many different categories in each subject. All of the quests I looked at seemed very intriguing and age appropriate and fun for students.

Jagdeep Kang-Tech trekers [] This website is student centered and inquiry based and it challenges students to explore the web and search for information. This web quest has many topics that children can learn and take an interest in. it offers English, art and music, science, math, music and art as well as foreign languages such as French and Spanish. Web quests are an excellent way for teachers to include computers and the internet into the classroom.

Marissa Green-Web Quest King Tutankhamen: Was It Murdered? [] This web quest would be great for children in elementary and middle school. The website was very intriguing because of how many fun facts it included as well as the assignment they assigned for kids. The web quest has instructions of an activity that gives each student a role for a character. They provided websites depending on what character you chose and had to find the answers to the questions that the website provided. This is definitely an effective way for students to get engaged with group activities. It includes group activities and assigned roles so that everyone plays a part in the assignment.

Daniel Schwartz- Chemistry WebQuest: its all about bonding.

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 * This Web Quest urges Chemistry students to use their own online resources to discover how molecules bond together. The subject matter of chemistry is a very difficult one to grasp for many students. It is not something that comes easily. After navigating through this web quest though, the value of independent work to come to a conclusion seems valid. I believe that it is a new and possibly better way to teach a complex thing such as chemical bonds. Being one of the more difficult things to learn, giving students the ability to try to understand it on their own though could be more so beneficial than lecture and pictures in textbooks.

Tori Fraher- Grades 3-4 Web quests [] This websites starts off with the definition of what a web quest is, why they were designed, who designed it, and how to specifically use it. Then the next section gives web quest collection sites of other third to fourth grade classrooms. Third they give examples of web quests that would be appropriate for these young students for examples anything from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” to “Cinco De Mayo”, and lastly they have directions on how to locate a web quest. This is great for teachers who have these young students and want to teach them about web quests.

Jeffrey Bennett- Webquest [] I thought this site was very informative, for people who may be a little unsure about webquest. It explains what a webquest actually is for those who may not have known. On the left of the page that has lots of useful tools as well that can be used. The site allows you to find a webquest by looking through its database it has. You may create a webquest by explaining what should be inside of one and it gives you samples of others if you’re unsure. It provides many resources that you can use for research such as books or other sites.

Kellie Yanek- The Constitution for Kids [] This Constitution web quest would be helpful for teachers who teach grades 8 through11th Social Studies. Students will not have to waste much time searching for information if doing a paper or project about the Constitution. Therefore, teachers will not have to spend as much time in the computer lab or even scheduling times for the computer lab because the students only have to use one site for researching the Constitution for his or her project or essay. The web quest is uses words and examples that children of the grade levels 8th through 11th can understand and interpret easily.

Shannon Grover- Quest Garden [] Quest Garden is a site that is available for teachers to help in creating web quests. Quest Garden makes web quest designing easier for teachers as well by providing prompts, guides, and examples throughout the process so that even the beginning web quest designer can complete the task. Quest Garden users can also modify the work of others making their job even easier. For teachers who wish to use this site there is a 30 day free trial to get the feel for the technology. After that, the price is only $20.00 for two years which is very low. I feel like this website would be very helpful to teachers because it seems so easy to use and affordable.

Carlyn Seeman – WebQuest Examples

@http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/WebQuestExamples.html This specific website gives you an example of what a WebQuest would typically look like. This one is for elementary students. Throughout the page there are links to click on to go to specific websites regarding different topics the students might be studying. Above each link there is a title showing which category or topic the link falls under. Underneath the link there is a sentence explaining what the website entails along with providing the ages or grade levels that would best understand the website. WebQuest pages come in handy when asking the students to do research on a particular topic. This way the links are right there for them to use rather than having them take up class time to try and find the information themselves.

Kristyn McCarty-Money, Money, Money A Budget Website [] This web quest came off of a bigger website that had numerous web quests that I could have picked from. This specific one is excellent for students because they are going to be learning the value of money and the importance of spending it wisely. It goes into specific detail that most adults are on their own budget with what to save and how much to spend in a certain month or amount of time. In my personal opinion children can learn a lot from reading this. They can see for themselves that it is important to be responsible and to maintain the amount of money that they are spending. It will teach them that money doesn’t grow on trees and that they should manage their money wisely. If they don’t they will have to learn the hard way rather than being responsible and having a less stressful life. For example, it shows a project that students will have to be working on. Basically two classmates get paired up and they’re supposed to pretend that they are roommates and budget their money wisely. They have to document what they spend their money on and how they each will be managing their money.

Sarah Fairburn-Using Area and Perimeter to Design a Fun House [] This site uses area and perimeter and makes students apply it to a real life situation that they may one day encounter. This also helps the students realize the work it takes to design something like a house. The reason that this would be useful for educators is because students will interact with different online sites to help them along with finding out perimeter and area which they will use to complete their task. The other sites make them practice using perimeter and area in real life situations so that they would be better off when they are doing this project.

Jordan Shifflett - WebQuest 101
 * @http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
 * This website is an introduction to Web-Quest's for teachers that have never used or created one. This website will help future teachers become comfortable creating and assigning web quest's in their own classroom. Web quest's are a great way for students to be introduced to technology and a fun way to learn. It is a good way for your students to build individual learning skills. Instead of you having to lecture all the topics all the time teachers can now create a web quest's and allow students to find answers and learn on their own using the world wide web.

Brandon Campbell-Pilgrim Life Adventure []

This Webquest was designed for elementary students, and gives them a chance to learn a little bit about their own past, as well as teach them about Life as a Pilgrim. The students will learn about what it was like living as a Pilgrim, and what it was like travelling across the ocean on The Mayflower. The students will also learn about what the Pilgrims ate, what they wore, how they acted and what they did for fun. For the activity, the students will be working in groups and discovering all about the Pilgrim heritage. The students will also be creating their own vehicle to travel in, and listing what all they can pack, to represent how it was like to be a pilgrim on the Mayflower, because all Pilgrims couldn’t bring everything they had. Overall, this is a nice activity for young students, and definitely a fun way for them to learn about the past.

Chance Fink – Here Come the Dinosaurs @http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/dino/dinosaurs.html On this site is a web quest for students, it is about dinosaurs and has a chart that the students will need to fill in for each dinosaur. Also it provides all of the instructions the students need by separating it into two areas the getting started aspect and the additional activities the students can work on. When they get started there are several links the students will be able to find the information they need so that they are not wasting all of their time searching the web. These are a fun way for teachers to get students involved in the classroom. Also it switches things up from the normal way of teaching, which helps students enjoy the class.

Molly O’Shea – Educational Webquests Webquest [] To me this is a really great webpage to find a webquest according to what your are teaching. I felt that this was a really great webpage because it has tons of webquests specifically for the grade level that I’m planning on teaching which is elementary education. It also has links for webquest at different levels (junior high and high school) and also for specific subjects (art, music…) which can be beneficial for other levels and subjects. When you click on the webquest that you want it comes right up and has all of the information needed to use for your webquest. This webpage has many different webquests that the students can do and it is really interesting to see all of the subjects that the students can study.

Emily Davis- Math Webquest This website provides hundreds of math Webquests for elementary school teachers to use. The website includes links that lead to Webquests that were made by elementary school teachers. The Webquests include math that is taught in elementary school, but the Webquests relate the math to something the students will find interesting or something they do in their everyday life. Such as, cooking, Nascar, television shows students may know, food, sports, and many more. The Webquests are easy and do not include much researching for the student. Some of the Webquests can be completed in groups and other can be complete individually.
 * @http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/math/

Brad Mandarino – WebQuests

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This site gives many links to almost any kind of schooling possible. There is a variety of subjects that a student can learn and this site has a webquest for almost all of them. Teachers would be able to use this site to teach students in a different and fun way. It gives the students the opportunity to learn outside of the classroom. Webquests provide a lot of information while the information is easy to learn and understand. This enhances the student’s ability to learn because they are getting all the facts and information they need in a short period of time.

Rachel Senior- Latin America

@http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Jones-S/webquest/swjindex_htm3.html

This site in an excellent resource for the students to use at home or in the classroom to research and learn about a certain topic or culture. It is a useful tool for teachers because it provides lesson plans and quizzes to test the students’ knowledge. There are also teacher’s notes available to assist lesson planning and preparation. The site provides maps, and useful links and secure links for the students so that they do not have to search the internet themselves. This site provides help for teachers as well as students by incorporating technology into the classroom in one forum.

CJ Stewart

Journey Through History – The Roaring 20s web quest @http://teaching.bigbluebottle.org/2006/11/04/the-roaring-20s/ One of the biggest problems I have run into with finding good web quests is the abundance of broken links. This site though older has functioning links and given it is dated in 2006 I think it attests to the robust nature of its links. This web quest provides several different options so that a student can explore an aspect of the 20s that appeals to them from 20s fashion to 20s cars there is plenty of verity. The content of most of the links suits a 3th-6th grade aged audience and most of the sites seem like they would be compelling to a young audience.


 * Camille Dobbins
 * http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/webquest_orig.shtml
 * These are great webquests because they are really well organized. Each one lays out exactly what the student needs to do. It allows the students to be very independent. This website is for older children because each quest includes quite a few steps. The students will have to learn how to navigate the site, but it doesn’t take too long to figure out. Once the students get the hang of the navigation, they will find this website very enjoyable. I like these webquests because they make children think outside of the box. These aren’t just webquests about nature, but also about people!