Introduction
In this part of the project, students should examine websites to find several different holiday traditions from different cultures other than their own. As part of the final project, students will create a report with a poster or brochure to present their favorite traditions they have found on WebQuest to the class.
Introduction
Feliz Navidad! Happy Hanukkah!
Kwanza Greetings
Do you enjoy the holidays?
What, specifically, do you like about them? (besides getting presents, of course!)
Do you like decorating your tree? Helping your family with Christmas dinner?
What are some of the traditions your family enjoys and what do you especially like about them? Are some of your celebrations different from your friends or neighbors?
You will want to compare these to the ones you find out about on WebQuest.
Task
Your task is to search for websites on the Internet to learn more about other holiday traditions.
You must include some of the aspects of the celebrations of Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas in other countries.
You will write a report or brochure explaining which tradition you found most interesting and why.
The last step will be to present one or two of the traditions you found most interesting to the class. To do this, you will create a visual product to share. You might make a poster, to showcase the traditions you selected.
Process
Here are some websites that describe different holiday traditions including Christmas in other countries, Kwanza and Hanukkah and also for the hearing impaired:
http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/hanukkah/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/kwanzaa/
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Kwanzaa
http://judaism.about.com/od/holidays/a/Hanukkah-Traditions-Activities-For-Kids.htm
http://tntoday.utk.edu/2013/11/21/ut-interpret-christmas-carol-deaf-community-december-4/
After you have visited these websites and explored them, you should ask yourself how much you knew about these other holiday celebrations before.
You should describe in your report and presentation how some of the activities in these celebrations are different or similar to holiday activities in your family. In particular, what are the roles of children in these celebrations?
You should compare these celebrations and describe activities that are similar and different between them.
Your report or presentation should also include some pictures showing things typical of the different celebrations.
Evaluation
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Level |
1 Unsatisfactory |
2 Satisfactory |
3 Excellent |
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Effort in Web Quest |
Student demonstrated minimal effort, failed to follow directions, and often went off task.
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Student demonstrated satisfactory effort, followed directions, and stayed on task.
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Student demonstrated outstanding effort, followed all directions, and stayed on task.
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Ability to follow instructions and navigate WebQuest |
Student showed limited ability. |
Student showed satisfactory ability. |
Student showed high ability. |
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Report organization |
The information appears to be disorganized. |
Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed.
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Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs.
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Amount of information covered in report
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One or more topics were not addressed.
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All topics are addressed and most questions answered.
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All topics are addressed and most questions answered with at least two sentences about each topic.
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Spelling and grammar in report |
Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
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A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.
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Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
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Conclusion
Congratulations on having completed the WebQuest on holiday celebrations!
After this WebQuest, you should be able to understand that there are many interesting holiday traditions besides Christmas in other countries and cultures.
When you celebrate the holidays with your family, you should now be able to appreciate your own traditions even more.
As part of your celebrations, you could share some the things you have learned with your family and how they relate to your own family's traditions.
Credits
For the creation of my WebQuest, I used the website:
https://www.createwebquest.com/
I also used a number of clip art sites to obtain the images I have used in my WebQuest.
I also looked at examples of different WebQuests. In particular, I found the web site Education World to be very helpful.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/webquest.shtml
Another site that proved to be very useful:
Teacher Page
I found CreateWebQuest to be very helpful and would recommend its use to others for creating a WebQuest.
Add images such as clip art has never been easier.
However, a good piece of advice for adding images is that picking preview to get a full size image will make the image appear medium or large in size. Otherwise, the image is inserted as a thumbnail size which is too small when presented in the Webquest.