Introduction | The Task | Resources | The Process | Learning Advice | Assesssment Rubric | Conclusion
Write a short paragraph here to introduce the activity 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.
(If you have this information in a lesson plan or student activity sheet previously saved in a word processing document, open the word processing document and select the introduction, copy the information, switch back to Page Mill2.0, highlight all unnecessary words and paste information form your word processing document.)
Describe crisply and clearly what the end result of the learners' activities will be. The task could be:
(Using Page Mill2.0 Highlight each item. Describe crisply and clearly...information you gathered.- Replace with list of outcomes, behavioral objectives, questions, etc. The list will appear as bulleted list. Hitting return at the end of a line will give you a new bullet.)
Use this space to point out places on the internet (or physical resources in the classroom) that will be available for the learners to use to accomplish the task. Embed the anchors within a description of each resource so that your learners know in advance what they're clicking on.
( The easiest way to insert resources is to use your bookmark file from Netscape. Open Netscape, under the Window menu, select Bookmarks, Delete/Cut all bookmarks in the file, find the resources needed to accomplish this task, as you locate each resource go to Bookmark Menu, select Add a Bookmark. When you have found all your resources, go to Window Menu, select Bookmarks, under the File Menu, select Save Bookmark File as... bookmark.htm. Now go to the Page Mill application and under File, select Open, open bookmark.htm, copy /paste these resources into this webquest document.)
To accomplish the task, what steps should the learners go through.
(Using Page Mill2.0 just highlight each item then type your own information. Break the process down into clear concise steps. The successful completion of the task by the learner is directly related to the clarity and of the steps list here.)
Here you would provide some guidance on how to organize the information gathered. This advice could suggestion to use flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or other organizing structures. The advice could also take the form of a checklist of questions to analyze the information with, or things to notice or think about.
It's possible that the learning advice would flow best if merged in with the process description. If you're providing a lot of advice, or if the data gathering and analysis process has more than a few steps, it might be best to break Learning Advice out to a separate section.
If you don't, just delete this section.
(To replace, highlight unnecessary information and replace with Learning Advice as suggested or you may Insert your paragraph with any help for learner that will enable learner to accomplish tasks, visualize final produce, etc.)
Be clear and concise in what is expected to successfully complete the project. You may want to include a rubric of your grading, listing the points assigned to various aspects of the project. If the data collection and analysis process has more than a few steps you should give students a schedule for submitting parts of the project. You could develop worksheets to be completed and submitted at these times. This will help students organize their time and not let everything go until the last minute. Remember our goal is for each of our students to be succesful.
Put a couple of sentences here that summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this webquest. You might also include some rhetorical questions that encourage them to extend their thinking into other content.
(To replace, highlight unnecessary information and Replace with conclusion as suggested or you may also Insert summary of what was accomplished, means to evaluate WebQuest, etc.)
This page written by (Your Name, grade level and/or title, and your email address )
Last updated Month #, 1997.
(Delete-Month #, 1997.- Insert name of month date, year you completed your WebQuest or latest revision.
Please always leave the following acknowledgment to the source of WebQuests
This page was adapted from Bernie Dodge 's WebQuest_Template1.html by Tom March
(Under File Menu, select Save As.. type in your file name, it should be only eight letters long and end with .htm. Example spanques.htm. To test your new page open Netscape under file menu go to Open Local File, find your newly created fileand open it. You must go back into PageMill to make any necessary corrections.)
(This workshop is based on concepts developed by Applications Design Team/Wired Learning for the Knowledge Network.)
Prepared by 
Carol Siwninski for Germantown
Academy Staff Development Summer Workshop June23- June 24, 1997
Updated November, 2007
Send comments or questions to Carol Siwinski,
Curricular Technology Specialist for Germantown Academy,
at carol.siwinski@germantownacademy.org