Honestly, in looking at the upcoming assignments, I feel a tad overwhelmed, but I know I will get through it. I sort of read chapter 3 when I was in the process of creating my website to help me. I then tried to create my own HTML and it didn't come out quite the way I had anticipated. Time to try again.
Anyway, the point of the blog post... we are in the first stage of developing an Instructional project/web page. In the examples I have looked at so far, it looks like I will basically be writing out a lesson plan on a webpage, including any instructional websites and tasks to go with my project. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG. I will need an introduction, task, process, evaluation, conclusion and will also need to give credit where credit is due and it seems as though I will need a teacher page.
I have two different ideas to use so far. One idea is on food chains. I would have students define words related to the food chain, then students will create food chains in class. They will play a food chain game online and a game as a physical activity, and will create a food web at the end of the lesson using yarn and nails. This is actually a lesson I did in my student teaching with my 4th graders. The one thing I did not do was have students create a food web. I actually made the food web a project for my final lesson in the credential program. I took a piece of board and with nails made a circle, around one nail which was the sun. I placed pictures of different plants and animals next to each nail, and gave my classmates yarn to create a food web.
The other idea I came up with was a lesson on trees. The first task the students will do is participate in a sensory lesson using a mystery box filled with samples taken from two different trees, and then the class will work together to create a comparison of the two different trees. The next tasks the students will be asked to do are go out to the grassy area or local park to take digital pictures of and samples of trees. The students will do a tree rub with leaves on tissue, using liquid starch to make a collage. There are more tasks I will need to figure out for this project, and will work on that to help me determine which idea I will decide to go with. Any suggestions?
I look forward to hearing about everyone else's ideas for their instructional website.
Take care
You are close but not quite. A WebQuest is a lot more detailed and complex than a web based lesson. The biggest thing that distinguishes a web based lesson from a WQ is the higher order thinking students must do. Having them read and play a game is NOT a WQ, it is a web based lesson. Having students research the food chain and then inventing a new animal and placing it on a food chain requires them to USE information.
ReplyDeleteAs you look at more WQs look at the Introduction - it is usually a 'discrepant event' that needs to be clarified or solved. Creating a WQ is something that should be done procedurally and it takes a long time.
I also had in mind having students work on problems of taking out a link in a food chain or adding another animal to the food chain, or over-populating an animal for students to determine what would happen and how they could resolve any issues.
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