WebQuest Guide

WebQuests are inquiry-based online learning activities. They guide students through Internet resources and then ask them to use the information they find to accomplish a specific task or reach a predetermined goal. Participants in these online adventures are able to set their imagination and creativity free to produce work that incorporates their own unique perspective on a topic.

WebQuests are especially valuable for teaching research skills and helping students learn how to recognize and use solid online resources, while discarding less authoritative websites. Many WebQuests allow students to work both independently, taking responsibility for their own part of a project, and collaboratively with other team members to achieve success—skills that will be essential when they enter the workplace. With a large number of WebQuests freely available on the Internet, teachers may choose to use those developed by their peers, or if they are so inclined, create new ones based on the needs of their particular classroom.

Elementary

• Magical Fairytale Moments: Students learn how to write their very own fairy tale.
• Amazing Space: Finding out everything a space traveler needs to know to plan a trip to one of the planets.
• Rainforest Mystery: Exploring the journals of Dr. Green, famous rainforest explorer to find out about if an animal is endangered.
• Electricity: What is electricity? What are the rules that apply to electricity? Answers to those questions and more in this science webquest.
• Earth Science: Students learn about the Grand Canyon geology and fascinating glaciers on these two webquests.
• Batty WebQuest: Learning about bats by doing research and creating a Bat Notebook.
• World Cultures: Students learn about population distributions and graphing as they explore other countries.
• Trading Spaces: Math and creative skills come in handy when students tackle this webquest.
• Survival: A webquest to explore the Canadian Wilderness, preparation, research, final report--factual documentation and all must be in writing.
• Let's Play: Learning math by designing and presenting a playground design.
• A Weather Investigation: How do you know what the weather will be like at a certain time of year? A webcast to learn about the seasons and how to dress appropriately.
• Web Site Sleuth: Love to read? Then you'll want to check go on this online quest for great book and author websites.
• Summer Safari: Where can kids learn about animals, write and illustrate a book, build graph showing how tall animals are, create a display of animals and give a talk about travel to Africa? On the "Lead a Summer Safari" webquest of course.
• Do You Have a Problem With That?: Students learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide as they complete this quest.
• Parts, Parts & More Parts: Head to the mythical town of Partsville to discover number parts.

Middle School

• Tailing the Samurai's Tail: Students set out to understand and share their discoveries about the background and setting of The Samurai's Tale.
• The Real Johnny Tremain: After reading Esther Forbes' book Johnny Tremain, students go on a quest to discover the facts about America's revolutionary period and determine how accurately that time was portrayed by the author.
• Seeking the Nightingale: Students do research on the historical and cultural setting of the book Of Nightingales That Weep.
• Digging Up Dinosaurs: Working on a dinosaur expert team means learning all about fossils and the work of paleontologists who hunt them.
• Touring Antarctica: Students team up to discover the impact of tourism on the wilderness that is Antarctica and prepare an impact statement for the government of Australia.
• Human Cell: On this science webquest, kids will learn all about the parts of human cells and how their functions are like common everyday items.
• Math Adventure: Who could resist a quest called A Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind? This adventure in learning is a cool as its name.
• Dangerous Meat Loaf: Is meat loaf a healthy food? Doing research and interpreting the findings will help students determine the answer to that question.
• Weather Forecast Showdown: Participants in this quest aim to determine the accuracy of weather forecasting on television.
• National Debt: This webquest is all about democracy and the national debt. If kids do their math, they will learn who's footing the bill.

High School

• World Full of Chaos: A webquest to understand fractals, dynamic systems and Chaos Theory and learn about how mathematicians are trying to explain natural phenomena.
• What is This Button For?: Students try their hand at teaching logarithms and what the "log" button on the scientific calculator is used for.
• Trilingual Packaging: Dr. Math, Dr. Design and Dr. Triangle tackle a game packaging design and bid a BBGC contract.
• Cracking Dams: Using chemistry, physics, calculus and algebra to learn about dams and why they fail.
• Raging Waters: A webquest to discover relationships between natural events like earthquakes and tsunamis in different areas of Earth.
• Dictionary, Schmictionary: Discovering online dictionaries, learning to evaluate choices and writing a persuasive letter.
• Element ADventure: Students learn about elements from the Periodic Table by creating a commercial to "sell" them.
• Frankenstein 2018: What can students learn about Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein? Find out in this introductory webquest.
• Travel Brochure: Students get to design and write a travel brochure for their start-up company called The Sky's the Limit.
• Gatsby Meets the Press: A webquest to learn the real news stories as background to the novel The Great Gatsby.