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A WebQuest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here)

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Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page

Introduction

You've been asked by the Board of Directors of the Museum of X to help design an exhibit about Y! The Board feels that people don't know enough about or appreciate Y, and they're hoping that you can pull together a selection of examples that will dazzle and educate the audience.

Task

[Describe what the final deliverable will be: a display of actual objects? A virtual museum shown as PowerPoint slides or web pages? An invisible exhibit that students describe while pointing to places in the room and asking us to use our imagination?]

[Give some indication of how many exhibits there will be, and how important it is that they select the objects carefully and with some theme or criteria in mind.]

Process

1. First, explore these sites to get an overview of the kinds of things that might be in your exhibit.
2. Within your team, develop some rules for selecting the specific items for your exhibit. What qualities does something need to have? What should you be sure to include because it will interest your audience?
3. Now, divide up the task of finding objects based on your criteria. You may distribute the work based on different subcategories of objects or by themes.
4. Decide together as a team on a final set of exhibits.
5. Prepare your exhibit using whateve medium you've been assigned.
6. Describe and show your exhibit to your audience.

Evaluation

Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades. You may want to have separate rubrics for individual and group work.

Conclusion

Put a few sentences here that summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this activity or lesson.

You might also include some rhetorical questions or additional links to encourage them to extend their thinking into other content beyond this lesson. To foster the habit of lifelong learning, give them links to additional information here that they can pursue on their own.

Credits & References

List here the sources of any images, music or text that you're using (with permission, of course). Provide links back to the original source. Say thanks to anyone who provided resources, help or inspiration.

Don't relist all the links you've already included. They're self-documenting.

As a matter of style and to keep ownership clear, all pages that you call up that are external to this site should appear in a new window outside of this frame. Add "TARGET=_BLANK" to the link to bring this about.

List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.

Include a link back to The WebQuest Page and the Design Patterns page so that others can acquire the latest version of this template and training materials.

You might want to include the following statement:

"We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest, update or otherwise modify it, and post it elsewhere provided that the original author's name is retained along with a link back to the original URL of this WebQuest. On the line after the original author's name, you may add Modified by (your name) on (date). If you do modify it, please let me know and provide the new URL."

Last updated on (put date here). Based on a template from The WebQuest Page