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This lesson centers around the question of the appropriateness of using Native American mascots in schools and sports. Students will research both sides of the argument, take a stance on the issue and create/present a persuasive response. |
Manuel Rios |
Grade: 9-12 |
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The goal of this WebQuest is to have students look at the contribution of Women in the Labor Movement between 1860 and 1920. Students take on the role of a middle class American Women who has to decide whether or not to participate in the movement. They must explain why they have made their decision and be prepared to support their decision. |
Tadge O'Brien |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 College/Adult |
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Become a new travel agent and design a travel brochure/guide for four regions of the United States (as well as a travel review of a particular place). The brochure features routes, itineraries, famous people, places, and things to do. It gives students a chance to find out about America. The travel review gives students a chance to write. This is an extensive research/writing project. |
Brian A. Yablon |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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Final project for Kansas unit. Designed for 4th grade, but could be used with older students. Includes research on geography, history, famous Kansans, and more. Includes extensive Kansas links. |
Richard Brown |
Grade: 3-5 6-8 9-12 |
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Students develop a character that is in Gettysburg, PA on July 1,2,3, 1863. They develop a journal entry for each of the three days of the famous battle. Along with the journal entry students create maps and pictures to go along with their journal entries. |
Curt Nielsen |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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"Outraged Citizen" is a web-based exploration of political issues and resources. By following the eight-step process, you will find out who your elected political officials are, identify political issues in a monologue, match the issue to the right political official, and finally write a persuasive letter to an elected political official. |
John Buchanan |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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Students are asked to take on the role of either a reporter, a lyricist, or an artist in World War II America, Germany, or Japan. Students work in groups of three to view and investigate different propaganda forms used in World War II. They then create their own radio platform and radio broadcast designed to sway public opinion to their side. |
Liza Hastings, Samantha Scaggs |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Students will display and illustrate in a Power Point Presentation the life, the times and the ideas of the Reformation and the religious reformers. Through the analysis of primary sources and other documents students will be able to compare and evaluate core beliefs and some interesting details of the Catholic and Protestant faiths. |
Rocio Acevedo, Veronica Ocampo, Monique Autrique |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Students will explore the life and times of one of the most powerful rulers in history: Louis XIV, the Sun King. Students will learn what conditions prevailed in 17th century France that allowed (or rather called for) this absolute ruler who so openly expressed "L’état c’est moi"(I am the State). |
Rocio Acevedo, Veronica Ocampo, Monique Autrique |
Grade: 9-12 |
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The U.S. government has decided to duplicate some important buildings, memorials and monuments that form part of the National Mall in Washington D.C.: |
Rocio Acevedo, Jessica Knight, Steve Bates |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Students will design a Museum Exhibit on the Mexican Independence. Students will work in groups of five to create a museum that contains exhibits on five main phases of the war for Independence. The exhibit must incorporate a variety of elements—pictures, maps, primary-source documents, charts and graphs, timelines—to display the causes, phases, and effects of the war of Independence. |
Rocio Acevedo, Monique Autrique, Jerry Freed |
Grade: 9-12 |
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In this Web Quest students will research not only the causes and important events of the Great Depression, but also examine the personal struggles and challenges of a nation and its people in one of the worst the socio-economic periods of the twentieth century. |
Rocio Acevedo, Dennis Spencer |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Although titled in Spanish this webquest is mostly bilingual. It´s aimed at helping people travelling virtually all over the 25 countries member of the expanded European Union. This travel will take you throught a wide variety of cultures and traditions. It includes links which will help you travel: tourism (lonely planet); car renting; where to rest (youth hostels and campings); maps of the different countries ... |
Enrique Blanco Carrera |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 College/Adult |
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A Webquest about the Internet and Graphics. Influenced by Golden & Silver Age comic books and characters. Deals with social and ethical issues, as well as practical applications for HTML, Graphics, etc. Designed to go over 10 weeks. |
Luke Smith, Luke Smith |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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In pairs, students explore both sides of one of a five ethical dilemmas facing our society. Student research their topics and then present both sides of the issue is a "debate style" format. |
Kristopher Wiemer |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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Students need to write an account of a thirty-day stay in a concentration camp in WWII. Links up to both history as well as English. Originally designed for ESL/EFL students. |
Eric Kortenschijl |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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Students act as investigative reporters in this webquest with the task of determining what life was like during and after Japanese internment. This webquest utilizes a |
Deborah Harmon, Nancy Copeland, Toni Stokes Jones |
Grade: 9-12 |
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In groups, students attempt to create a peace treaty between India and Pakistan that will finally bring a lasting peace to the subcontinent. |
Dan McDowell |
Grade: 9-12 |
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This was a WebQuest completed through the iMET program at California State University, Sacramento to enhance classroom technology. The WebQuest tries to make students think about the validity of web sites. They are required to make a presentation to their peers and even quiz their peers over items that make-up valid web sites. |
Koreen Gonzales, Kristina Roys, Samantha McLeod |
Grade: 9-12 |
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A Neighborhood for Everyone: The Redevelopment of Sherman Heights, California |
The gentrification of lower-income neighborhoods is an important topic. Students will study the redevelopment of the neighborhood of Sherman Heights, take on roles in the debate and work together to make a fair and equitable neighborhood plan. |
Leilani Clark |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Learn about the clipper ship Flying Cloud and it's world record journey during California's Gold Rush. Use math to solve the clues and complete the quest. |
Russ Johnston |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Students retrace the footsteps of Lewis and Clark in an effort to understand the changes that have taken place in America since their historic journey. |
Chris Albus |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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This project rquires students to research information about Kumeyaay culture. Following research, students develop an original Kumeyaay persona character, and then write a descriptive narrative in keeping with the character, and perform their piece at the big event: The Kumeyaay Prose Slam. Combines Cultural Awareness, Social Studies Research, Descriptive Writing, and Oral Presentation. |
Stacey Johnson |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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This interdisciplinary webquest about world war one requires students to compile a photo-journalism magazine which creatively explores the meaning and legacy of the war. Students are also required to draw connections to the present. this topic is particularly suited to an interdisciplinary approach both because of the rich resources available, and because a simple narrative approach to the material is insufficient to convey the horrors of this war. the project draws on constructivist and Interdisciplinary theory, and is carefully organized to insure collaboration. It is the goal of the author that the student project go beyond a potpourri of information, and that it be a meaningful, original document. |
s. emler-davis |
Grade: 9-12 |
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This WebQuest is designed to familiarize students with some of the online resources that can you help you in the quest to find jobs that fit you. The students will prepare an employment plan for one (or more) JobSeekers, taken from actual employment cases. |
Marco Lizarraga, David Bayne, Bruce Moon |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 College/Adult |
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Students work in pairs or groups to study Ancient Roman religion, daily life, architecture, and government. The research culminates in a Power Point presentation to te class. |
David Warmbier |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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Who are responsible for child labour? |
Sadashivan |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 College/Adult |
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Enjoy travelling all over the 25 European Union members. Design your own holidays throughout Europe easily and quickly. Be daring! |
Enrique Blanco |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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Descubre los países de la Unión Europea y las futuras incorporaciones. Disfruta viajando por otras culturas desde tu casa. Diseña tus próximas vacaciones. ¡Atrévete! |
Enrique Blanco Carrera |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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Effects of the Cotton Gin on Life in the United States: Different Perspectives |
This WebQuest was developed for 8th grade students in a gifted seminar setting. It delves into the effects the cotton gin had on various characters in the early 1800's and studies the interpersonal relationships of those characters. This WebQuest promotes higher level thinking skills. With modifications this WebQuest would work for other grade levels in regular classrooms. |
Marge Kiersz, Gayle Starr |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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Familiarizes pupils with the concepts of longitude and latitude in a fun way, that also enables them to learn how to use the web to research. |
Christopher Heng |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Students look at events in Iraq through several news sources. Then the create a newscast showing what is happening over there. |
John Murray, Robert Giovanello |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Researches a variety of information relating to the Mayan civilization. Students use research to create a children's book with text and graphics to reflect their findings. |
Karen Packal |
Grade: 9-12 |
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A Resource website to assist Year 11 students to access appropriate online resources for their study of Greek Drama. |
Pamela Cohen |
Grade: 9-12 |
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Close Study of Text - "Poison under their Lips"by Mark Svendsen |
A website for Year 10 students to complete an online novel study of Mark Svendsen's "Poison Under Their Lips" |
Pamela Cohen |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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A website for senior English students to study the play 'The Removalists' by Australian author, David Williamson. |
Pamela Cohen |
Grade: 9-12 College/Adult |
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Portrait of a Soldier, student will imagine life prior to the Civil War then reseach actual photos and memiors to gain enough knowledge to defend the soldiers reasons for fighting. |
Mike Devoll, Rich Dineen, Denise Ryan, Cheryl Spear |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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This quest takes students through a picturial view of the lives and times of Civil War Soldiers of the North, South, and Colored Troops. Students write a pursuasive essay about their findings. |
Cheryl Spear, Denise Ryan, Mike Devoll, Rich Dineen |
Grade: 6-8 9-12 |
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This Webquest is used during the Civil War and Reconstruction Unit. It is on slavery before the Civil War and on Slavery is today. It has several projects that students must complete to show there knowledge of what they have learned |
Jennifer Errickson |
Grade: 9-12 |
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| Taking the Bite Out of the West Nile Virus | ||||
| The Nuclear Waste WebQuest | ||||
| The Geo-organ-pipes WebQuest | ||||
| Offshore Windfarms in the United States? | ||||
| The Chinese Cultural Revolution WebQuest | ||||
| The Renaissance -Why was it so important? | ||||
| Drink, Drunk, Drive: Why We Must Legislate WebQuest | ||||
| LIVING IN THE FAST (food) LANE! | ||||
| A Separate Peace: A Teenager Experiences World War II | ||||