Creating a WebQuest

WebQuests: A Strategy for Scaffolding Higher Level Learning -  Material edited from Bernie Dodge's site, boiled down for easy reference.

Why WebQuests?  An Introduction  - Tom March's often-quoted ideas.

The WebQuest Page - THE essential page for WebQuests.  Follow the links to learn all you'll ever want to know....and maybe more!

Matrix of WebQuests - Look here for samples, ideas, and formats.

Best WebQuests - Tom March's highly selective, small-but-growing list of excellent WebQuests.  Check this out!

Creating Essential Questions - A brief explanation by Pat Clifford and Sharon Friesen. This is a MSWord document.

WebQuest Design Process - Great reminders of how we teachers do it!

Evaluation Tools (Rubrics)

Science Sites for Teachers - A Brief List - This will get you started and shortcut your search for resources.

Chemistry WebQuests

Creating Web Pages Using Netscape Composer - Instructions for simple webpage construction.

Template for Teachers - Open this page in your HTML editor or save it to your disk and open it in MSWord; fill in the blanks...it will be your lesson plan.  Or you can turn it into your students' WebQuest page which you will post to the Internet.  This comes from Bernie Dodge's site.

Template for Students - Open this page in Netscape Composer or save it to your disk and open it in MSWORD; fill in the blanks...it will be your students' WebQuest page which you will post to the Internet.  This comes from Bernie Dodge's site.

Filamentality - A fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a
    topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources
    into learning activities.  It's "quick 'n dirty" and it works!

Web Inquiry - Take your thinking one step beyond WebQuests with this Philip Molebash article.

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