On a Web Quest? Look No Further

As our society become increasingly mesmerized and hooked to technology it is only appropriate that teachers start to use it more and more in their classrooms. One way that teachers can incorporate technology is through WebQuests. WebQuests are a way for teachers to make performance tasks online. WebQuests helps students to accomplish the established objectives for a unit while incorporating the use of technology to get students more aware of how to responsibly use the computer and the internet. I think that WebQuests are great resources that all teachers should try at least once, especially because of how engaged the students become from activities like this. 

Here is a WebQuest that I found while searching the Internet that I thought was interesting:

http://questgarden.com/104/96/9/100612115537/index.htm

This WebQuest focuses on America from 1920-1939. It is well organized and appealing to the eye as well as very informative. The creator provided an introduction to the time period and addition websites to find more information on the topic. The task for this WebQuest was to have students have students represent someone who was from the time period. Students would take on this identity in order to complete a diary tracking daily activities such as shopping, eating, and traveling to portray an accurate depiction of what it was like to live then. The creator also asked students to look at various websites to explore events and things that a person with their identity would have been interested in back during the 1920's and 1930's.

I think that this is a great task for students because they get to relate their life today to the life they could have had in the 1920's and 1930's. Students from this task can see the difference in housing, car, and food prices. The creator has also provided a step by step process of how the students are to go about competing this performance task as well as the criteria and rubric for which she is going to examine their products.

Overall, this WebQuest serves as a great example of how the content should be included as well as the task and grading requirements. I would recommend that any teacher thinking about starting a WebQuest should first take a look at this example.

Happy Questing!