WEBQUESTUsing the Internet for

an Inquiry-based Learning

                 

Why WebQuest?• Here is a story http://www.ozline.com/webquests

/intro.html • WebQuests: A strategy for scaffolding higher level

learning http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/necc98.htm • An article entitle "the student WebQuest" by Maureen

brown Yoder, April 1999 http://www.iste.org/L&L/26/7/features/yoder/index.html

• A quick review of the original WebQuest concept homepage http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

Two Types of WebQuest Short term instructional

goalso Knowledge acquisition,

higher order thinking and integration

o Learners have to make sense of a significant amount of new information

o Can be completed from one to three class periods

Long term instructional goalso Extend and refine

knowledge through a higher order thinking process over a period of time

o Learners analyze and transform the body of knowledge into their own way of understanding, then have to demonstrate their understanding in some forms

o Can be completed from one week to a month

Components of a WebQuest Building Blocks of a WebQuest

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/webquest/buildingblocks.html

1. Introduction: orients learners to what to be expected

2. Tasks: instructs learners what to do

3. The process: provides steps or strategies

4. Evaluation: primarily with rubrics http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html

5. Resources: keep learners focus with pre-selected web pages, (or books, videos and CD-ROMs)

6. Conclusion: summarize, reflect, extend and generalize about the learning process to demonstrate understanding

Tutorials

A roadmap for developing WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/roadmap/index.htm

Five rules for writing great WebQuestshttp://www.iste.org/L&L/28/8/featuredarticle/dodge/index.html

A WebQuest on creating a WebQuest http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/teacher_quest/

Webquest 101 – putting discovery into the curriculum http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml

More on Tutorials Disney has created a WebQuest tutorial to walk you

through the critical components of a WebQuest http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month8/index.html

A taxonomy of tasks http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskonomy.html

Training materials http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm

If you want to design WebQuest as web pages (only if you understand web design), here are templates http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/LessonTemplate.html

Ideas for Lesson Plan

• The best web resources for classroom WebQuest lesson plans http://www.teachertidbytes.com/WebLessonPlans.html

• Matrix of examples http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html

• A good example http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/ohes/bratcherMol/WebQuestMolluskPage.html

• The WebQuest Connection http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/webquestslinks/

WEBQUEST

Bon Voyage!