WELCOME FRIEND!

Introduction

WELCOME  FRIEND!

Imagine that your friend from London wants to travel to your country, how would you introduce your town city or area to this foreign friend in order to let him or her know as much as possible about where you live?

This friend comes for a week.

Which places and interesting things can he/she visit?

How would you introduce the flora and fauna of this place?

What things would you reccomend him/her when coming here, such us what to bring.

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LET'S THINK ABOUT IT!

Task

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

You will have to create a video of yourselves explaining to the foreign student what will you do with him/her here. You have to explain mainly the places to visit or what to do in the place.

    

  

Moreover  you will add photos of the places, the route,  music, etc.

 You will have to make your project original and interesting.

Impress the other classmates!

BE CREATIVE! 

 

Process

STEP BY STEP...

This acitivity has a challenge! You will have to do this Webquest in 5 hours of class, you can organize the time on your own but consciously and with responsability. 

Good Luck! 

1. “Let him or her know as much as possible about where you live”

After a general brainstormig in the classroom, you wil have to write a brief text, scheme or document in which we can know more about the place that the student live. So this means that the text will contain general information about the area.


2. “Which are the most interesting places to visit?”
You have to look for information about the most interesting places to visit.

You will have to make a survey to the inhabitants of your city in order to know which places are the most interesting to visit. So, let's go to the street! 

After this brief introduction, you will have to create a graphic with the results of the survey with a map of the location.  You can search on Google Maps where this places are located.

 


3.“And what about Flora and fauna?”

Your friend is really interested in knowing more about the flora and fauna of the city.  are two tables in which students should have summarized the typical flora and fauna o

  • f their city, village or country.

Using this reliable web pages you will have to search information about the flora and fauna of the area. You will have to complete a table with a picture of the most common animals and plants and a brief description of them in order to explain them to your friend. 

Webpages to consult: 

You can use pictures of your own experience to get the ideas of the flora and fauna of the city or only to complete your activity.

 Be original!

4. “What he or she should bring? Let's analyse the weather!”

When you go abroad it's imporant to know about the weather in order to decide what to bring. You will have to choose and decide in which week their friend will come to visit you. 

To choose the best moment for the meeting, you will have to make relations between the seasonal wheather and  what you want to do.

Search the prediction and the specific weather of the days that your friend will stay here in order to make easier the task of making his or her suitcase.
 

So, let's create a diagram representing the weather or the prediction of the days that your friend will come to visit you. 

5.“What we have to do when we have all the information about the tour?”

It's time to decide what you will do with your friend!

All the group will have to decide and create a route organizing the programme of all the week. After that, you will have to complete a table with the programme of the whole week with all the activities and places that they will visit.

 Resultat d'imatges de what we will do?


6.“When they have all prepared to create a video?”

Here you will have to: 

Summarize all the learning products of the last learning phases. Use a mind map or scheme.

What about Cacoo? https://cacoo.com/

7.“Let's post the video!”

It's de last part! 
Let's record a video to explain lots of things to your friend! 

You should do a summary of all of the points worked!

What if you talk about:

- the place you live?

-what you will visit?

-what flora and fauna you will see?

-what he/she should bring?

Evaluation

EVALUATION

A WebQuest is not a traditional activity, neither their evaluation.  

We'll evaluate the final product because we can check if the process has been done correctly. In fact, we will take into account the process ant each learning product of each learning phase. 

This is our rubric for assesing the WebQuest:

Category

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Teamwork

Students meet and discuss regularly. All students contribute to the discussion and all are listened to respectfully. All team members contribute a fair share of the work.

Students meet and discuss regularly. Most students contribute to the discussion and are listened to respectfully. All team members contribute a fair share of the work.

A couple of team meetings are held.  Most students contribute to the discussion and are listened to respectfully. All team members contribute a fair share of the work.

Meetings are not held and  some team members do not contribute a fair share of the work.

Research

The group members developed questions about the assigned topic, consulted at least 3 reference sources.

The group members consulted at least 3 reference sources, developed a position based on their sources, and correctly cited their sources.

The group members consulted at least 2 reference sources, developed a position based on their sources, and correctly cited their sources.

There are fewer than two cited sources and there isn't a development of the positions.

Equipament preparation

All necesary equipment/supplies are located and scheduled well in advance.

All necesary equipment/supplies are located and scheduled a few days in advance.

On the day of the shoot, all necesary equipment/supplies are located and checked to ensure they are operational. 

Needed supplies/equipment are missing OR were not checked  before the shoot.

Natural places and other science aspects.

They have a knowledge of the natural places they have close to the school. Also, the description is suitable for the place and for the level. 

They don't have a very good knowledge of the places. Otherwise, they try to do the descriptions as well as possible to make the video understanding.

They don't have a control of the place and didn't know about it. They try to adapt the descriptions, but using the same information as the webs only changing a few aspects.

They don't know about the places and didn't learn about. The descriptions are plagiarized and only memorized for the video.

Presentation

The final result is clear and easy to follow. Have only the necessary information. Includes all the concepts worked in the subactivities.

The final result is a bit difficult to understantd, but the presentation is clear. Some of the information is not useful. 1 aspect of the sub activities is missed.

The final result not so clear and easy to understand. There is a lot of irelevant information. Some aspects of the subactivities are missed.

The final result is very complicated to follow and understand. There is an excess of information and is not exposed in order. Some aspects of the subactivities are missed.

Conclusion

THAT'S ALL! YOU ARE NOW EXPERTS OF YOUR CITY! CONGRATULATIONS!

HOPE THE TOUR! Your friend will spent a really good time! Enjoy it!

CREATE!

IMAGINE!

HAVE FUN!

Credits

TEACHERS:

Laura Ortoneda 

Alba de Cruz

Maria Guixà

Rosaura Darbra

Xènia Ferro

Anna Sánchez

Teacher Page


Information about this WebQuest

Level: 6th primary

Sessions: 5 hours + time spent in the street doing the brief survey.

General view of the activity: This activity is related to the daily life of students so they will be really engaged and motivated with it.