Audience:
This WebQuest is designed for 5th grade to middle school students.
Goals:
The main goal to do this WebQuest is to learn food chains and humans are also included in the chains.
Other goals:
1. Learn and get skills to cooperate with other people.
2. Acquire problem solving skills.
3. Get skills of creativity by designing food chains and considering how to organize them.
4. Get a satisfaction of achievement by creating food chains by themselves.
Skills:
Students are required to have skills to read and understand what is written in websites, to express their own ideas, to gather information, to listen to other people’s idea, to observe, to think critically, and to communicate with other people.
Time:
This Webquest will take one week for students to complete. It is possible to adjust time by increasing or decreasing the number of animals that each group picks.
Evaluation:
Teachers should evaluate students heavily based on their effort to cooperate with other students and to create food chains(an attitude to work on this WebQuest).
Other evaluation criteria:
1. The correctness of food chains that students create.
2. The correctness of categorizing animals according to herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and marine organisms.
“A very good work” is a work that is not wrong and easy to see and understand contents perfectly.
“An OK work” is a work that has several mistakes and the food chains should at least be comprehensible that a teacher can understand they are food chains.
“A not OK work” is a work that has a lot of mistakes and a teacher cannot tell what students create.
Materials:
Teachers should prepare:
1. Five large papers to create food chains(four for each group and one for a class)
2. Drawing papers for each students to draw animals.
3. Color markers to draw animals.
This WebQuest is designed for 5th grade to middle school students.
Goals:
The main goal to do this WebQuest is to learn food chains and humans are also included in the chains.
Other goals:
1. Learn and get skills to cooperate with other people.
2. Acquire problem solving skills.
3. Get skills of creativity by designing food chains and considering how to organize them.
4. Get a satisfaction of achievement by creating food chains by themselves.
Skills:
Students are required to have skills to read and understand what is written in websites, to express their own ideas, to gather information, to listen to other people’s idea, to observe, to think critically, and to communicate with other people.
Time:
This Webquest will take one week for students to complete. It is possible to adjust time by increasing or decreasing the number of animals that each group picks.
Evaluation:
Teachers should evaluate students heavily based on their effort to cooperate with other students and to create food chains(an attitude to work on this WebQuest).
Other evaluation criteria:
1. The correctness of food chains that students create.
2. The correctness of categorizing animals according to herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and marine organisms.
“A very good work” is a work that is not wrong and easy to see and understand contents perfectly.
“An OK work” is a work that has several mistakes and the food chains should at least be comprehensible that a teacher can understand they are food chains.
“A not OK work” is a work that has a lot of mistakes and a teacher cannot tell what students create.
Materials:
Teachers should prepare:
1. Five large papers to create food chains(four for each group and one for a class)
2. Drawing papers for each students to draw animals.
3. Color markers to draw animals.
4. Glude
5. Scissors