Are you tired of the old hum drum - chalk dust lessons? Have you heard the phrase "Work smarter, not harder!"?  It's about time you move into the millennium! That's what web questing is all about.  By the time you leave this WebQuest, you will be ready to jump right into web questing  with your students.  You will be the guide on the side while your students make crucial decisions and learn essential curriculum skills and much more!  You will leave with an understanding of just what a WebQuest is all about and how you can start your students "questing" in your classroom this week. 

Congratulations! (?) Your principal has been to a Classroom Connect workshop about WebQuests and has strongly suggested that you use this in your instruction AND teach other teachers how to use WebQuests in their classrooms'. You're new and you really need to keep your job but you don't know what a WebQuest is, so...............you must go on this mission.

Your mission, should you accept it, (oops, you really don't have a choice) will be :

1. Define a WebQuest
2. Identify the essential elements of a WebQuest
3. Experience  WebQuests
4. Evaluate WebQuests
5. Explore WebQuests
6. Bookmark three favorite Quests that will enhance your curriculum
7. Select one WebQuest and implement it with your students
8. Add your favorite Quest to the FCPS WebQuest database
9. Use this WebQuest and what you've learned to train at least one other teacher

 

 

Matrix of Examples

WebQuests- Short Term and Long Term

Elementary WebQuests

WebQuests Loudin County Public Schools

Anthologyof WebQuests

Region2  WebQuest Matrix

Web Quest Scenarios for Teachers

WebQuest Index of Lessons

1. What are WebQuests?  Identify the 6 elements of a WebQuest.

View the slideshow developed by Kathie Schrock, an expert in the field. When you have completed viewing the slideshow, close the window to get back to this WebQuest.

2. Experience a WebQuest.

El Camino Real
The Titanic
 

3. Evaluate a WebQuest.

• Take a look at Bernie Dodge's sample rubric.
• Choose two WebQuests  to evaluate from the matrix of WebQuests.
• Print your evaluation.
• Submit your evaluation.

4. Explore WebQuests.

Use the sites listed in the resource section to explore a variety of WebQuests.  Bookmark 5 Quests (or more) that pertain to your grade level / curriculum. Remember, you will be using these in your class so only bookmark Quests that will be useful for your students.

5. Implement

Within the next three months, choose one or more Quests to journey with your students. (Whether or not you are a guide on the side or sage on the stage will depend on the available equipment in your building.)

6. Share

Please share your most successful WebQuests by submitting the sites on the Frederick County Public Schools WebQuest database and email Cindy with a summary of your successes and /or concerns while using this in your classrooms as a technology tool to support curriculum.

7. Train

Teach the use of WebQuests as a technology tool to support instruction to at least one other teacher.  While sharing this WebQuest,  make sure in step 6 your "trainee"  mentions you as the trainer in their e-mail to Cindy.

Mission accomplished. You are finally tenured! You get to keep your job.  Your principal is so proud of you, she invites other principals in to observe your class using WebQuests and gives you release time to train the other teachers in your building. Best of all, your students had such a great time, they didn't even know they were using higher level thinking skills and actually learning.  Now all the parents request you as their child's teacher. Your next mission will be to develop your own WebQuest. Happy Questing!!!!!!!!!!