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A Web Quest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.

Making Your Own Hotlist or Webquest

Paula Levandoski, a TAH participant and trainer from Cassadaga Valley Schools has created this document as a guide to creating hotlists or webquests.

.Uploads/Webquests.pdf

After entering this site, to find webquests related to United States History:  Click on each of the three rating words on the left side of the screen--TOP, MIDDLING AND NEW.  After clicking on one of these words, a matrix will appear.  Select Social Studies and your appropriate grade interest.  In the TOP rated category over 300 webquests exist for review--over 500 in the three categories

Exceptional Internet Sources for Teaching, Webquests, Projects
Created by the Missouri Instructional Networked Teaching Strategy Project. 
          eThemes  is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate
resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created by
           educators to use in their classroom.  Over 750 themes, designed with a
wealth of embedded electronic resources.  Click on the Resource Index.  Includes geography, history, literature, science, math and other topics.    Excellent.
          http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml
 
          SAMPLE  World War I
    These sites cover the events of World War I (1914-1918). Read eye witness accounts and view photographs and maps. Other topics include the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, trench warfare, Choctaw Code Talkers, President Woodrow Wilson, war propaganda, Treaty of Versailles, the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman telegram. Includes biographies, letters, images, posters, video, and audio clips.
         http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001051.shtml
 
EduHound's Comprehensive List of Webquest Sources
Over thirty selected resources to access hundreds of webquests on different topics.
http://www.eduhound.com/showlinks.cfm?subj=WebQuests&skey=Webquests
 

Specific Webquests Related To This Topic

 

 

 
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