Student Technology Teacher

Introduction

Did you know that many teachers are afraid of technology? And that they are so busy that they do not have time to learn? These same teachers want the best for their students. They want their students to use technology. Who could help these teachers?

The Task

You are a student technology teacher. Your assignment is to design a webquest for a group of students on a particular topic. The students will be able to get information and make something when they follow the web links and questions you create for them.

The Process

Find out what your topic and grade level is.

Make a list of what parts are needed in the web quest.

Look at sample webquests to see what they look like and to get ideas for your own topic and grade level.

Follow the template your teacher gives you to create a webquest.

Remember to get permission to use any text or graphics from someone else's work!

Resources and Guidelines

1. Click HERE to print out your worksheet.

2. Go to go to the top of this page for definitions of what a webquest needs for your worksheet:

http://simscience.org/cracks/webquests.html Click the BACK button on your browser to get back here.

3. Find a site to match your subject area and grade level. Evaluate the parts on your worksheet.

K-3

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/encanto/fishfeatures/fishfeatures.html

Fish Features&emdash;science

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kimbrough/pilgrimlife/

Pilgrim Life&emdash;social studies

http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq5/qgerm.htm

Trip to Germany&emdash;social studies

 

4-5

http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edt628/hovey/index.html

Planet Quest

 

Middle School

http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hcarter/webquest.htm

Civil War&emdash;social studies

 

http://simscience.org/cracks/wq_int_grav_3.html

Cracking Dams---science

4. Use these ideas to create your own webquest ideas on your topic at your grade level using the table in your worksheet.

5. Design your webquest.

Conclusion

You should now know what a webquest does and how to design it using all the needed parts of a webquest.

You will have met the following reading goals from the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements:

• Reading 3.2: You will have read to perform a task (follow directions; solve a problem--design a webquest).
• Reading 3.1: You will have read to learn new information (read directions and documents to learn what a webquest is).
• Reading 2.2: You will have understood what you read (analyzed the information t design your own webquest).

For the teacher:

This short webquest will help technology students learn how to create a webquest to teach teachers about technology.