WebQuests

"If you've attended any professional growth in-services or college of education courses in the past ten years you'll be familiar with the following phrases of teacher-speak: critical thinking, cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and technology integration. You may even have bumped into cognitive psychology with its schema theory, scaffolding, and novice/expert models. How about constructivism? If you're like most educators, you get excited about new ideas for helping students learn and grow, but then feel your chest tighten or your spirits sink when you remember your already bursting curriculum requirements and the logistical demands of classroom teaching. With everything else that must be taught, how can we add these new and important strategies? WebQuests were designed to address this dilemma by bringing together the most effective instructional practices into one integrated student activity. " Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University

WebQuests are lessons designed by teachers which use Internet Sources imbedded within the lesson. Students are asked to complete activities using specific prechosen sites. The purpose of this site is to give teachers a starting point for completing their own WebQuests.

**K-12 Sites for Specific Subjects and General Education 

**WEBQUEST Template 

**Sample WebQuest about WebQuests 

*****These links are all from a website by Bernie Dodge of SanDiego State University.*****

Filamentality  (guides you through the steps of making a WebQuest)

EdWeb WebQuests

A Matrix of WebQuest Examples

Educational Media and Technology Resources

Spartanburg County Schools WebQuests

A List of WebQuest Sites

Explore a WebQuest

Japanese Internment

Sores, Scabs and Scurvy: So Goes the Life of a Sailor WebQuest

*****American Dreams Through the Decades*******

(Developed by the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection Fellows Program)