EDIN 5461 Curriculum Creativity and Design
WebQuest Design Template
Instructions: Copy this document before working on it. Please fill it out as you work through
your WebQuest development. You may revise and make changes as you work.
Section Design Notes
Introduction Title of the lesson: Protect environment
Student audience
Short paragraph "The Earth is suffering. The challenges of pollution, unsustainable energy
Prepare and “hook” the
reader use, and deforestation are all contributing to the daily increase in Earth's
temperature. Additionally, a great deal of life on our planet is in pain. If we
Overview or advance do not act now, we will also suffer. We have a chance to preserve the earth.
organizer. Layout the We must act now!”
inquiry. Design Pattern
Inquiry:
• Describe the many types of pollution, their causes, and their effects.
• Describe the importance of preventing pollution in the environment.
- Read and fully understand various texts focusing on environmental
issues.
• Use the internet to learn more about ecology and pollution, and
apply their prior understanding of these topics to their work.
• Enjoy the use of technology.
Task The lesson consists of warm-up and main task activities:
Clear statement of the
end result or culminating Warm up activity is to activate students’ prior, background and cultural
activities. knowledge of the subject by giving set of question related to subject.
Anything that requires the
Next, the teacher will ask the class to look over the brochures once more. She
learners to process and
will now urge pupils to read them and pay attention to how the information is
transform the information
organized, including whether there are images, graphs, or other visual aids.
they've gathered.
Task Taxonomy
She'll explain to students that they'll need to complete certain activities and
additional research on the issue to come up with their own brochures to
Think of this as the key increase environmental awareness in their neighborhood.
performance tasks and
any other sub-task of the
WebQuest.
Process PROCESS:
What steps should the Warm up questions:
learners go through to How many different types of pollution are there? Can you identify them? -
accomplish the task/s?
Use a numbered list if it How is land, air, or water contaminated? How much energy do you save at
helps. Be detailed, home? like, what are you doing? Do you consider it to be useful? Why? -
specific and clear. What species of animals are facing extinction? Why? - Do you understand
how garbage is categorized? What makes that beneficial for recycling? At
Give learners scaffolds
e.g. templates, organizers
home, do you recycle? What items or things? What can we do to protect the
charts. Link lectures, environment and the ecology?
notes or templates here.
Main Task:
Think of this as the 1- Visit this link and listen to the story. Then, make a chart including the
sequence or multiple
lessons/days/times of the places mentioned and why they are contaminated.
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WebQuest. British Council (n.d). Planet Earth:
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/planet-earth
2- Get the facts. Use this links to get information that will be useful for
your brochures.
Mayntz , Melissa (n.d) Kinds of pollution:
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Types_of_Pollution
3- Let’s have some fun! With the information you already have, try to
sort out rubbish.
British Council (n.d). Clean and green.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-with-english/clean-
andgreen
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4- Follow this link to test yourself. You should include some of the tips
provided in the game in your brochure to encourage people to protect
the planet. British Council (n.d.) How green are you?
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-with-english/how-
green-are-you
5- Design your brochure!
Resources Additional links for main task:
This section points the Harrison Paul (2010) http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/index.html
learner to the online (or
classroom) resources
needed to complete the
quest. These might be
links to websites,
databases etc. Be sure to
hide links behind words,
phrases or pictures.
Mention the resources
needed to complete the
final project.
Student may need to consult a dictionary for some definitions:
Cambridge University Press (2010): http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Next lesson. Students will have half of lesson one and lesson two to do the
Webquest.
Lesson three. The students will now return to the classroom to finish creating
the brochures. After completing their brochures, students will be required to
present them orally to the class, outlining the data they choose to include, the
images or graphs they chose, and how their brochure might assist spread
awareness of environmental issues. After each student has presented their
work, copies will be made to distribute throughout the school.
Evaluation Self-Assessment:
How will learner Answer the following questions:
performance will be 1) Did you like taking part of the project? Why? / Why not? (1 points)
evaluated and how
2) What did you like the most? Why? (1 points)
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artifacts will be assessed. 3) What did you like the least? Why? (1 points)
Provide one or more 4) What did you learn from this project? (3 points)
rubrics here.
5) Do you think that people will take part in saving the planet after reading
your brochure? (4)
Overall: 10 points
Conclusion Students will have a greater grasp of how to help the earth and their
surroundings after completing this project. Students will grow more
Closing paragraph that conscious of the environment.
brings and end to the
quest. You can also
include other thinking
questions.
Teacher Page Provide students with computers, stable internet connections.
(notes) Ask warm up questions dividing students in small groups.
Put tips or instructions for
other teachers who might
use this quest. What
should the students know
before? What
preparations are needed.
Teacher Page Digital citizens
(standards) They will gain a better understanding of the rights and obligations associated
with utilizing contemporary technology by completing the online quest task.
Insert ISTE and standards Additionally, it mandates that students conduct themselves morally, lawfully,
that apply to the and securely online.
objectives of this
WebQuest.
Innovative designer
Do not just copy and They develop into innovative designers because the work calls for
paste all standards. Only understanding the fundamentals of problem-solving.
place those performance
indicators that link back to
Students must also study solution design, which requires them to identify
the task or performances issues, suggest fixes, and even create those fixes using digital tools.
(rubric) in this WebQuest.
Computational thinker
In order to engage in this kind of thinking, students will learn about data
gathering, data analysis, algorithmic thinking, and data representation. It also
encourages students to dissect problems into its component parts in order to
better understand a particular subject.
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