WebQuests are meaningful web-based activities designed to challenge the learner's problem-solving and higher-order thinking skills. WebQuests have become popular with teachers because they help them integrate the Internet into the curriculum through a 6-step model that has been field tested and proven successful through a wide range of grade levels and subjects.
Each of the following
components of the WebQuest are:
- Introduction
- Task
- Process
- Resources
- Evaluation
- Conclusion
The ideal WebQuest...
- Engages the student's higher-order thinking skills.
- Uses the Internet for information that cannot be easily obtained from other sources.
- Takes advantage of the Internet in terms of its dynamic nature.
- Takes advantage of the Internet in terms of its communicative nature (communication with other students, teachers, and experts).
- Utilizes other resources such as printed materials and speakers but the main focus is from resources on the Internet.
- Usually involves collaboration through groupwork.
In this WebQuest: Musical Instruments, you will become more familiar with the family instruments by sight and sound, and you will learn how instruments produce the sound. This WebQuest will offer all the information you need to know about orchestral instruments and at the same time you can have a great time!!
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