Resources & Guides

Here are few resources to help you in the construction of your WebQuest and to help guide your students to become self-sufficient learners. These are scaffolding tools.

   Teacher Aids

    Student Aids

The WebQuest Page provides tons of information on creating WebQuest projects.

·         Scaffolding Tools:

Reception Scaffolds

Transformation Scaffolds

Production Scaffolds

Select from various Process Guides to use as scaffolding tools within your WebQuest.
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Teachers may use the Rubistar to create rubrics for evaluating your students' projects.
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Help with FrontPage
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Use Hot Potatoes to design exercises and quizzes

The Avalon Project - a goldmine of primary source documents
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WWW4Teachers - all sorts of technology integration tools

Big 6 Resources

Big 6 Assignment Organizer
will help your students clarify the goals of their research assignment and organize the project before they begin.

Your students can use the Quality Information Checklist or the Website Evaluation Guide to help them determine if a site is valid and useful for their research.

NoodleQuest is quite useful for students learning the research process. It helps students learn effective search strategies.

Learning to use Modern Language Association (MLA) Format for citing resources is essential for any research project. for citing resources is essential for any research project.
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Use EasyBib to build your bibliography.
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Use the Hypertext Webster Gateway to have students look up unfamiliar words. or link directly to a definition.