Teachers

This WebQuest is designed to foster 'Academic Literacy' in High School grades addressing standards in Language Arts, Social Studies and Science.

Students are called upon to 

• Listen, read and reflect upon Richard Bach's novel, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and deliver a speech on their own personal philosophy of life.
• Analyze societal changes in values over time.
• Demonstrate the physics of flying.

Universal Design for Instruction

• Electronic text can be modified to accommodate vision.

• Audio recording of text will assist in reading comprehension.

Teacher should help students to gain an understanding of the use of  Thinking Maps prior to beginning this project.

Materials Needed

• Computers with Internet access

• Word Processor

• Reading Reflection Guides

• Scoring Guide for assessing the final project

  Resource links are provided to use as you guide your students through the process to complete this WebQuest.

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California Content Standards

Grades 9-12 Language Arts

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent themes.

1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies

Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations that convey clear and distinct perspectives and demonstrate solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.

Grades 9-12: Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills

1. Students compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and determining the lessons learned.

Students analyze how change happens at different rates at different times; that some aspects can change while others remain the same; that change is complicated and affects not only technology and politics, but also values and beliefs

Grades 10-12 Science - Motion and Forces

1. Newton’s laws predict the motion of most objects. As a basis for understanding this concept:

1. Students know how to solve problems that involve constant speed and average speed.

2. Students know that when forces are balanced, no acceleration occurs; thus an object continues to move at a constant speed or stays at rest (Newton’s first law).

3. Students know how to apply the law FÊ =Ê ma to solve one-dimensional motion problems that involve constant forces (Newton’s second law).

4. Students know that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object always exerts a force of equal magnitude and in the opposite direction (Newton’s third law).

5. Students know the relationship between the universal law of gravitation and the effect of gravity on an object at the surface of Earth.

6. Students know applying a force to an object perpendicular to the direction of its motion causes the object to change direction but not speed (e.g., Earth’s gravitational force causes a satellite in a circular orbit to change direction but not speed).

7. Students know circular motion requires the application of a constant force directed toward the center of the circle.