WebQuest!?

A WebQuest is a teaching strategy that is used to help guide students in learning. Students must inquire information from the web through different resources. Many times WebQuests are complete through group or partner activities. The first Webquest was created by Dr. Bernie Dodge in 1995 at San Diego University. The WebQuest was created in order to give students a format for online lessons which would make the best use of time while fostering higher level of thinking.

The best way to use WebQuests are through open eneded questions and using the information not just finding the information. 

Webquests can be used in all subject matters of Family and Consumer Sciences such as: 

Child Development: Life Cycle Process

Career Planning: Job searches, Professionalism, College Searches

Life Skills: Money Management/Budgetting tools

Nutrition: Meal Planning, MyPlate or SuperTracker

Interior Design: Furniture Styles, Housing Styles

Fashion: Elements of Design, Clothing comparisons, History of trends

There are 5 steps in creating a WebQuest:

Introduction: A short paragraph explaining/introducing the activity to students.

Task: Informes learners of what their end result will be.

Process: Indentifies the steps students should use to accomplish the task. This area includes the resources needed and uses scaffolding techniques in order to organize information.

Evaluation: Describes how the students will be assessed or evaluated.

Conclusion: Summarizes what the learners should have accomplished by using the WebQuest tool and provides further information to entend students thinking.

WebQuest have advantages and disadvantes that can effect the overall result of learning. If used properly this will effect the overall result of students assessment.

Advantages:

• Increased involvement in student motivation, group work, and communication skills.
• Research and evaluation can aid in higher level of thinking
• Many WebQuest are authentic tasks
• WebQuest are versatile and easy to use.
• WebQuest allow for in-depth knowledge over one topic

Disadvantages:

• WebQuest can take large amount of class time
• The required resources like a computer or internet is not always available for all classrooms
• Students can easily be distracted on the Internet
• Students with reading disabilities will struggle with this task.

WebQuest are most effectively used through learning activties, but if you alter the amount of content and structure of your WebQuest you can use them for Introductions or assessments. 

Resources:

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/index_sub7.html

-Explanation, assistance, and uses of WebQuests

https://www.createwebquest.com/node/18360/edit

-Create your own WebQuest

http://www.units4teachers.com/webquests.php

-WebQuest resources for teachers

fcclainc.org

-FCCLA RELATED WebQuest

Created by: Ceanna Baker

Activity:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=webquest-quiz&q=1

Nutrition WebQuest Example:

http://zunal.com/introduction.php?w=74637