WebQuest

Intelligence Walk of Fame Web Quest

What is a Web Quest? A web quest is an inquiry-based project to be performed mostly online. The Web Quest is created in a manner that most of the information or where to find the information is provided so the students can focus on solving the problem rather than scrambling for information. Web Quests should be set up so all the directions and requirements are listed right on the website so the students can work at their own pace with little to no instruction. Web Quests are time efficient and great projects to get the students thinking on higher levels such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.

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My Web Quest: My Web Quest is titled the Intelligence Walk of Fame, which was inspired by the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For the Hollywood Walk of Fame, famous actors are nominated and awarded a star to honor their accomplishments. I decided in order to help the students understand and appreciate the people who established the math skills and rules that we are studying today. As a math teacher, I find myself getting asked the questions, “Why do we do that? Why is that the answer? How do you know?” and this Web Quest will help answer questions like how and why we solve A squared plus B squared equals C squared to find the side of a right triangle as well as who came up with the idea. The students’ goal is to get a mathematician nominated as the person to win the first star on the Intelligence Walk of Fame, which will honor scholars. They have to come up with a campaign in the form of a press packet, a PowerPoint, and an invitation to the celebration party if their nominee wins.

Here is the link to my published Web Quest: [|Intelligence Walk of Fame]

Reflection: This Web Quest assignment seemed very scary at first. It sounded like a ton of work and a difficult project for my students to be able to perform, an online project that should run the class itself. As I came up with the idea and started setting up the project, I became more and more comfortable with the idea. I only web quest I have even done before was a list of questions that the students had to answer by searching one website so this was outside of my comfort zone, however, if set up correctly it should be just about the same level of difficulty. The process of coming up with a topic seemed most important to me, next to the process sections. I had to have a topic that would get the students interested so they would work and be self-motivated to do the project justice. Once I came up with the idea, it started coming easily. The next bump in the road I hit was while writing up the process section, explaining to the student what to do and how to do it all. The difficult part of this section was making sure every detail and requirement was explained and in detail. The more specific you get, the better chance of getting the desired result. I plan on using this Web Quest in my math class and can’t wait to see just how it actually goes. The students’ success will be my proof that this Web Quest is a success, can’t wait to see how it goes in reality.