Introduction
Students, you will be learning about continents, the country you live in, your state, and city. We will then learn about our community.
Task
You are about to learn about the world we live in and learn about your community. Are you ready to see and learn the continent names? As you go through this webquest you will read about communites and learn about maps. You will also complete a map notebook. After, you will pick your favorite place about your community and research the place you pick. Your journal will be documentation of your research.
Process
1. Grab a copy of the book My Neighborhood and begin to read it to learn about communites and maps. This will help you on your journey.
2. Name and label your Community book. You will be working and completing your work on here.
3. First, watch this video and learn the continents.
3a. Next, label the continents on your map, in your workbook.
4. Learn about North America, and the countries in it by watching this video.
4a. Now label the contries in North America, and color the United States red.
5. Learn about New Mexico here and here.
5a. Now color New Mexico yellow.
6. Now you will find your city in the New Mexico map! Once you find your city, color it your favorite color.
7. Now it's time to learn about Albuquerque on your own. Think of your favorite place in your community and learn about it. There are questions for you to answer in the workbook.
Here are some good sites that can help your learn about it.
Evaluation
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Narrative Responses
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Answers questions clearly. Writes in complete sentences without grammatical errors. Creative and original thoughts |
Answers questions. Has minor errors in sentence structure and grammar, but they do not interfere with readability. Some creativity |
Does not answer all questions. Has quite a few sentence and grammatical errors. Lacks originality |
Does not answer questions. Errors are numerous and distract from readability. |
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Map/ Drawings
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Map is labeled correctly and is neat in visual appearance and relevant to the work |
Map is labeled with few errors is fairly neat in appearance and relevant to the work |
Map is mislabeled or unlabeled and is not neat in visual and fairly relevant to the work |
Map is incomplete, mislabeled and is sloppily done and lacks relevance to the work |
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Map research pages |
7-8 research questions are correctly completed. |
6-5 research questions are not fully completed, but are most of the way done |
4- 3 research questions are incomplete but some attempt was made |
2-1 research questions are incomplete and almost no attempt was made |
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Book Reading /
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Participated fully in book reading. |
Participated in book reading. |
Did not actively participate in reading. |
Did not participate in book reading. |
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Total Points |
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Conclusion
Congratulations!!! You have done a great job!
There is alot more to learn about or world, maps, and our community. Please check out the library to learn more about it. Please share all that you have learned with your friends and family!
Credits
We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is granted for others to use and modify this WebQuest for educational, non-commercial purposes as long as the original authorship is credited. The modified WebQuest may be shared only under the same conditions. See the Creative Commons Attribution • Non-Commercial • Share-Alikelicense for details.
Teacher Page
This webquest was created by Marisol Williams. She is a first grade teacher in New Mexico. This webquest is geared for students in the primary levels. Younger students will need help reading through the quest.