A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
The very nature of a WebQuest can put students in touch with digital libraries, primary source documents, multimedia presentations, research documents and all other types of objects available in the World Wide Web. Some people refer to the Web as a virtual encyclopaedia however, there are significant differences. An encyclopedia is carefully researched, bias-free, organised, cross-referenced written by professionals and relatively static. On the other hand, information and objects found on the Web can be published by anyone, biased, opinionated, chaotic, volatile and completely unsupported by any research. While encyclopedias can be relied on, the information on the Web cannot. And yet, the new generation of students tends to turn to the Web first and an encyclopaedia… sometimes never!
WebQuests centre around a question that really needs answering, encourages students to use contemporary tools and sources of information and to interact and rely on others to achieve the task.
Another webquest that we've choosen is this relating to FOOD. We think that it can be appropiate to 2nd grade as it teaches english vocabulary and it can be a very helpful vocabulary to move around the world. At the same time pupils are learning about healthy food, something very important in our days.
The webquest makes pupils think about the food that they like and the food they don't like, about food for animals, plants and grains and the importance of eating well. This webquest pretents that pupils answer and learn the questions correctly, that they can answer oraly what they have written, if they can be able to summarise the collected information, that they make a clear presentation and that they learn to work together with the members of the group and other classmates. In generally we can say that this webquest makes pupils learn to work with technology resources and to learn something so important as is the food.
We think that it has a basic english level so it's a perfect webquest to work with the grade we dedicated this blog to.
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