# 10 WebQuest

Grow School Greens?

The Efficiency Expert: Great focused structure of the WebQuest. Very simply laid out steps to follow without much confusion. It takes the concept and dives deep into it with well defined steps along the way.

The Affiliator: There is a collaborated effort that is needed to reach the final product. Every team member must do their part which teaches the students individual effort within the team context. The rubric asks kids to discuss strength and weakness of the team leading to a richer assessment of the process.

The Altitudinist: Within this project each end result will look the same without much room for creative expression. While there are some good concepts being taught the students might be more focused on perfecting each step without lending itself to higher level thinking.

The Technophile: While the gifs where cute the WebQuest itself does not harness the full power of the web. There is potential for other formats that could help students understand the planting and growing process.


Where is My Hero?

The Efficiency Expert: The scope of this assignment is too broad and needs to provide more focused guidance. For example, the local hero part of the assignment is left up to the students which could lead to a wide array of definitions and responses. There should a stronger tie to the mastery of a concept.

The Affiliator: While in the rubric there was a space for accountability that judged the individual effort as well as the groups much of this project lends itself to individual work that does not need much collaboration.

The Altitudinist: Having students learn about other peoples perception of hero and then find a common definition requires higher level thinking skills. There is a lot of room for creative expression in creating the poster.

The Technophile: While I liked the links to relevant resources they could be more effectively used if interspersed throughout the WebQuest to focus thinking and provided examples along the way of the process instead of the after thought at the end.


Unraveling the Underground Railroad

The Efficiency Expert: Students will walk away from this WebQuest with a deep understanding of the Underground Railroad from many points of view.

The Affiliator: The talk show involved a lot of collaborative creativity and a process that forces students to engage with their team members in the design of the activity.

The Altitudinist: This WebQuest involves synthesizing the same historical information through different view points. This engages higher levels of thinking and the expected output leaves a lot of room for creativity. It does not just expect one type of project but pushes the group to demonstrate their expertise of the subject in a variety of ways.

The Technophile: This gives relavent links to multimedia within each component of the activity. Each link meaningfully advances the students knowledge within that area.


We All Scream for Ice Cream

The Efficiency Expert: The activity is well designed to teach kids about ice cream but I wonder about the worth of the learnings from the lesson.

The Affiliator: The group has to come up with one product which necessitates collaborative discussion.

The Altitudinist: I am left disappointed. There is an opportunity to have higher level thinking. There is the opportunity to dive into deeper skills, such as math and science. Instead, the WebQuest is one dimensional.

The Technophile: All the links I was sent to were no longer working. That alone leads me to be disappointed. Technology could had been the link used to bring it back to math or science instead of just a fun group activity about ice cream.


Ancient Egypt WebQuest

The Efficiency Expert: This activity asks students to focus on a narrow topic and develop a deep understanding of it.

The Affiliator: It is good that it is designed as a group activity but the way the accountability, or lack there of, is set up lends the opportunity for one person to do all the work.

The Altitudinist: After looking at past WebQuest it is obvious that this pushes students less because they are only expected to understand and report historical fact instead of analyzing and evaluating various view points.

The Technophile: The links where to resources that would have been just as effective in a worksheet.