webquest: engaging students in inquiry on the internet

WebQuest: Engaging Students in Inquiry on the Internet

Andrew J. Milson Stephanie Brenner

Karla Gulke R.C. Lowe

Northern Illinois University

Using the Internet

Possibilities?

Pitfalls?

WebQuest

Defined– an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or

all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.

Types– Short-term or Long-term– Single discipline, Multi-disciplinary,

Interdisciplinary– Collaborative or Individual

Critical Attributes

IntroductionTaskProcessResourcesEvaluationConclusion

WebQuest Resources

The WebQuest Page – http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

Sample WebQuests– http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

– http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.htm

– http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~milson/hall_of_fame/index.html

Source Collections

WebQuest “Seed”Sites– http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/seedsites.html

Audio Archives– http://www.archervalerie.com/audio.html

Primary Source Collections– National Archives and Records Administration

http://www.nara.gov/– Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/– Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/

Samples

Who are the People in our Neighborhood? – Stephanie Brenner

Discovering Illinois – R.C. Lowe

Washington, DC Here we Come – Karla Gulke