WEBQUEST:Standards and Objectives

Kindergarten Content Standard 2: Students will develop a sense of self in relation to families and community
Kindergarten Content Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding of their environment
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to make and use a map to locate specific places in and around their home.
2.Students will be able to write an explaination of how to get from point A to point B to someone unfamiliar to the area.

Webquest

Webquest is a great way for children to be able to use the web at home and learn on their own. I am interested in teaching Kindergarten and there are several ways that I might be able to use a webquest to help my students learn. I will probably do a webquest about the season Spring. I need to incorporate the changes in behavior of people and animals. I will create the webquest about  the changes in the season and how spring effects the changes of people and animals. 

WEBSITES>>>>

 Find one web site that represents each of the following categories (a total of 4 web sites).

An elementary school web site http://schools.ccsd.net/hill/index.html

A web site that provides lesson ideas for teachers http://teachers.net/lessonplans/grades/kindergarten/

An informational web site that gives basic information about an elementary level topic http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/youth/jccivil.html

An interactive web site that allows students to practice a specific skill or knowledge concerning an elementary level topic. http://www.coolmath.com/

Select an appropriate web site evaluation matrix from one of the following locations (copies will be provided in class). You should use different forms for each of your four evaluations.

http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html

http://www.bv229.k12.ks.us/bvn_lmc/web_site_evaluation_form2.htm

Any other of your choice http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/eval_form.htm

Complete an evaluation form for each web site. Remember to use different forms for each of your four evaluations.

Complete a blog entry about web site evaluation. Information you could share includes…

What form(s) did you like/dislike? Why? http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/tutorial/WWW.eval.html

This is the form I liked the best. I liked it because it has good questions and I understand what it is asking. I also really like that you grade it and at the end it tells you how well it did so it’s not just your opinion it actually tells you how good of a website it is.

 

Were there any hidden secrets about a website you discovered by using an evaluation form? I really liked the websites that were easy to navigate. It’s always frustrating when you cant find what you’re looking for because of the

 

What is the value of using a web site evaluation process? Yes, I liked using the evaluation forms because then I knew what I was looking for. I wasn’t looking at the websites and evaluating them blindly.

Are there times you would/would not use a formal evaluation? I feel formal evaluations should be used when you are going to use the site for educational purposes. If you are going to give someone a website to go to then it is important that you know that website will help them and not give them problems. Technical problems are always the hardest to figure out.