Today in class we learned about webquests. I looked at a lot and I think they can be a very good resource for teachers in all grades. A webquest is something that the teacher can make and change so it applies to their grade and the level of learning that their students should get.
I am doing my webquest on zunal.com and I want to do mine on Fourth Grade Science. I'm doing Standard 2, Objective 1, Indicator a, which is about teaching my students to identify different cloud types. If I don't do that one, I will do indicator d, which is about comparing different kinds of weather phenomena. I might switch the indicator, but I really like talking about the weather, so that is what I'm going to be teaching.
To teach this, I have a main idea about how to teach it, I just need to decide which indicator I want to use. If I teach the different types of clouds, I was thinking of having each of my students choose a different type of cloud (or I could divide them into groups and each group will have a specific type of cloud) and do a presentation about that type of cloud. This would include information about: what this clouds consists of and how you can tell it apart from other clouds, and things like that. If I teach the weather phenomena, I would have each child (or group) choose two opposing weather phenomena and make a presentation about how they are different, what conditions they are made under and such.
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You could do both if you wanted to. I like the group idea for the younger children. So that the groups aren't as big you could separate into types of clouds and weather phenomena that involve clouds...our just together, meaning, you could include the weather phenomena with the clouds they form from. does that make sense? I think it is a fun idea!
ReplyDeleteWeather would be so much fun. And I agree that you can do things for every grade in webquest. You just have to use more pictures and less words for the younger grades.
ReplyDeletesounds like a really good idea. I guess to make it really interesting you could have students classify inversion pollution too. At least to my untrained eye inversion sometimes looks like low clouds...
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a lot of fun! I love clouds and there really are so many different things that you could do with the WebQuest.
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