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A WebQuest for
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Designed by

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Introduction | Task | Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion

Introduction

The Introduction block should be written with the student as the intended audience. Write a short paragraph here to introduce the activity or lesson to the students. If there is a role or scenario involved (e.g., "You are a detective trying to identify the mysterious poet.") then here is where you'll set the stage. If there's no motivational intro like that, use this section to provide a short advance organizer or overview. Remember that the purpose of this section is to both prepare and hook the reader.

It is also in this section that you'll communicate the Big Question (Essential Question, Guiding Question) that the whole WebQuest is centered around.

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The Task block crisply and clearly describes what the end result of the students' activities will be. The task could be a:

• problem or mystery to be solved; 
• position to be formulated and defended; 
• product to be designed; 
• complexity to be analyzed; 
• personal insight to be articulated; 
• summary to be created; 
• persuasive message or journalistic account to be crafted; 
• a creative work, or 
• anything that requires the learners to process and transform the information they've gathered. 

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The Process block is where you outline the steps that students should go through in completing the Task. It may include strategies for dividing the task into subtasks, descriptions of roles to be played or perspectives to be taken by each learner. The instructor can also use this place to provide learning advice and interpersonal process advice, such as how to conduct a brainstorming session. The Process description should be relatively short and clear.

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Resources

The Resources block is a list of Web sites you have located that will help the students accomplish the task. The Resources are pre-selected so that students can focus their attention on the topic rather than surfing aimlessly. It is important to note that resources for the students are not restricted to those found on the Web.

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Evaluation

The Evaluation block is a new addition to the WebQuest model. Clearly, if we're going to justify the expense of using the web for learning, we need to be able to measure results. Since the learning we're looking for is at the loftier reaches of higher order thinking skills, we can't readily gauge it with a multiple-choice test or other traditional assessment methods. An evaluation rubric is probably called for.

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Conclusion

The Conclusion block provides an opportunity to summarize the experience, to encourage reflection about the process, to extend and generalize what was learned, or some combination of these. It's not a critically important piece, but it rounds out the document and provides that reader with a sense of closure. One good use for the conclusion section is to suggest questions that you might use in whole class discussion to debrief a lesson.

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Based on a template from The WebQuest Page. Last modified on May 14, 2000.