Webquest Ideas

Today we were introduced to our new project. We will be creating an interactive lesson through creating a webquest page. I think this is a great idea to for elementary teachers if they want a fresh, new way to teach a subject. I am in the 5th grade right now in my practicum. Every 5th grade classroom has to do a state report, so i thought that it would be a good idea to base my webquest page on this. I want assign every student one of the states. The requirements will be to write a one page report on their state, find a famous person from their state and write a few facts on that famous person, and to draw a map of their state, and a picture of their famous person. These are just ideas, so I will most likely change and add different ones while I think about it more.

Website Evaluations

Today in class we learned a lot about Websites and their information. There are many websites that are unreliable since websites can be written by anyone at anytime, and the information does not have to be correct. We looked at a few that were crazy.

We also looked at some educational websites and looked at some website evaluations. While looking over the evaluations I personally liked the Kathy Schrock guide. It is made especially for teachers and you can even choose the level of education that you are teaching at. It was clear and concise in the website questions. All of the questions were yes or no questions which is always nice. I liked the question asking if the spelling was correct on the page. It is a huge pet peeve of mine when things are spelt incorrectly when something is supposed to be professional.

I evaluated the Smithsonian website. I thought it was really good. I used the Kathy Schrock guide, and answered all the questions with positive answers toward the website. I also did the Wave on the Smithsonian website, and it didn't find ANY areas in the entire website, which I found pretty amazing. This was a good activity to see which websites will be good for our future classrooms!