This webquest is designed for a Grade 4 Core French class. For the purposes of this webquest, it is being done in English. It is designed to complement Outcome B3.1
Intercultural Awareness: By the end of Grade 4, students will communicate information orally about French-speaking communities in Ontario, including aspects of their cultures and their contributions to la francophonie and the world, and make connections to personal experiences and their own an other communities.
Show the YouTube video Franco Ontarien by Kelli Sheppard to introduce the topic to the class. Then, read the introduction together on the SmartBoard.
Students are to be placed in groups of 3. They must complete the Notes page to record the information they gather. This can be done on a printout of the page, or directly into the Google Doc. Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Process should take approximately 25 minutes each. Question #4, learning about the activities, should take about an hour.
One person will be the Leader/Navigator, who keeps the group on task and is in charge of navigating the webquest pages by clicking on the links. One will be the Reader, who reads the instructions and the website information out loud to the group. One will be the Writer, who writes or types the group's answers to the questions and any other interesting information that they want to record.
When the group has decided which activity to recommend, they will cooperatively create a slide show using Google Slides, or another program with which they are familiar. The students have worked with Google Slides in the past. The creation of the slide show should take approximately 2 hours. The group members will take turns orally presenting their slide show to the class at the end of the webquest.
The rubric will be used to evaluate the slide shows. Then, the class will vote on which activity they would like to use to celebrate Franco-Ontarian Day.