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A WebQuest for 1th Grade (science)
Designed by
Monika Fridrich
monifr@hotmail.com
Introduction | Tasks | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits
Lesson Plan | Table of Contents
There
is an animal in our ZOO. It has four webbed feet, furry body, swims,
and lays eggs. What group does this animal belong to?
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/aust/plat/index.html
Welcome
on your journey to become Junior Zoologist (scientists
who specializes in animal life).
Do you know how many animals are there on Earth? Too many to
count! So how do zoologists identify each one? They came up
with a way to organize different animals in categories according to
their body characteristics and their life cycle.
You and
your team
of scientists are going to become experts in one of the animal groups
to help your class to answer the question above.
You will receive your Junior
Zoologist certification upon presenting your group findings to your
classmates. Welcome to Animal Kingdom Quest.
To
become expert in your first you need to learn about all the main animal
categories. The scientists divided the animal kingdom into two main
groups, vertebrates (animals that have backbone)
and invertebrates (without backbone). Your group will research one of
the five groups of vertebrates: mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, or
amphibians.
During
your analytical task,
you will look closely at one or more things about one vertebrate group
and find similarities that make this animal group unique.
In your compilation task you will use information resources in pdf format and webpage search engines to select the items that your team will use to create a power point presentation to present to classmates.
In your mystery task all the teams
in the classroom will put information together to solve the mystery ZOO
animal.
Step One:
create a
team of experts and assign team jobs (each member of the team will have
a job: facilitator, resource person, recorder, and reporter) Team Jobs
Descriptions
Step Two:
Each team
researches one
animal group. This research will include animal group body description,
life cycle, interesting fact and example of the animal from the group.
Click on your animal group to start your quest.
| Mammals |
Birds |
Reptiles |
| Fish |
Amphibians |
Step Three:
Each team will create poster or a power point presentation: Presentation
Guidelines
Step Four
Each team will present their group work and evaluate group of other
teams. Team evaluation form
Step Five
The class
together decide what animal group our mystery animal belongs to.
Each student completes Mystery
Animal Quiz
Evaluation
Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated.
Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs.
individual grades.
|
Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Working cooperatively in the
group |
|
Student fulfills at least one task of his/her job requirements | Student fulfills at least two of his/her job requirements | Student fulfills all his/her job requirements |
|
|
Classroom presentation (group grade) |
Student does not participate in
classroom presentation |
Student participate in a team presentation pasively or after being prompted by teammates or a teacher | Student participate in team
presentation but does not volunteer to answer questions |
Student actively participate in a team
presentation and volunteers to answer questions |
|
| Mystery
Animal Quiz (individual grade) |
Student did not complete animal quiz |
Student started the quiz but did not
finish or made two mistakes |
Student finished the quiz correctly but
did not print out the result page |
Student finished the quiz and printed
out the final page |
|
| Evaluating
of other teams (individual grade) |
Student did not complete evaluation of
other teams |
Student completed evaluation of other teams |
|
||
| Self-evaluation (individual grade) |
Student did not complete self-evaluation | Student completed self-evaluation |
|
||
| Peer-evaluation (individual grade) |
Student did not complete evaluation of team mates | Student completed evaluation of team mates |
Working as a
team is an important part of scientists' life. You might have become an
expert on one animal group but working in a team and listening to other
teams presentations, you learned about other animals groups as well.
What else did you learn during this quest? What was the hardest part of
the quest? Write in your journal your thoughts about this project.
I would like
to thank to my ETAP 526 instructor, Sabrina Taylor, for her great
support and well-designed guides that helped me to create this
webquest.
I would also
like to thank all the people who put their time and efforts to create
websites for teaching children about animals. The following is a list
of wonderful websites that I use in my webquest.
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/intro1.html
---- clickable field of animal groups
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768513.html ---- all animal groups