Managing WebQuests in Your Classroom

Using the packet about WebQuests that you were given today, reference the blue sheet and the yellow sheets as you respond to the following questions:

What are you most excited about when you think of using WebQuessts in your room?

What are you most concerned with?

What one tip did you find most useful?

Welcome to the Waterville Jr. High eMINTS Blog

This blog is intended to keep the lines of communication open and serve as a repository for ideas and resources between sessions. I hope that there will be a lively discourse on educational issues related to science and technology.

Below you will find 10 posts with different classroom scenarios. Technology is incorporated into each of these lessons. I would like you to use the notes from the discussion on Grappling's Learning and Technology Spectrum to comment on each lesson.

Please be specific about which level you think the lesson is on, give valid reasons from the chart and/or readings. If you are not the first one to comment, be sure to respond to at least one other person's comment.

Classroom Scenario #10

Students use Paint to illustrate their original story.

Classroom Scenario #9

Students collect daily weather data and use this information to compare the accuracy of four Internet weather websites. Then students use weather data to make their own weather predictions.

Classroom Scenario #8

Students use Excel spreadsheets to chart data, create and print graphs to represent information of their choice.

Classroom Scenario #7

Students develop an interactive PowerPoint to teach their second grade buddies about the human body.

Classroom Scenario #6

Students create and manipulate geometric figures to observe the effects of changing various parameters using Geometer's Sketchpad software.

Classroom Scenario #5

Students use online resources and primary source documents to develop a multimedia presentation on the Industrial Revolution complete with video, still images, and sound.

Classroom Scenario #4

Students working in small groups collect information on scientist and use PowerPoint to present their findings to the class.

Classroom Scenario #3

A teacher shows clips from the Missouri Heritage Videos during a unit on Lewis and Clark.

Classroom Scenario #2

Students learn how to use PowerPoint by creating a slide presentation called “My Life,” which has three slides that use varied transitions, sound and/or images.

Classroom Scenario #1

Students are allowed to perform an online simulated frog dissection after they have finished their regular assignments.