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Teacher Page A WebQuest for 5th Grade Socail Studies Designed by Robin Fong
Introduction
| Learners
| Standards
| Process
| Resources
| Evaluation
| Conclusion
| Credits
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This lesson is rooted in 5th grade social sciences, but also incorporates technology, research skills, creative elements, and language arts. This lesson can be reduced or expanded to adjust them for higher or lower grades. Prior to this lesson, students in your district have explored their own communities, as well as the state of Oregon. Their ideas about their surrounding are expanding, as are their correlations between their environments and those of other states and countries. By learning about the origins of the fifty states and America, they are continuing to expand their knowledge of their surroundings. Curriculum Standards Social Studies-Recognize the relationships among the various parts of a nation's cultural life. -Learn about the mythology, legends, values and beliefs of a people. The Arts -Create, present and/or perform a work of art Language Arts -Use organizational features of printed text to locate relevant information. -Use effective note taking techniques -Find information in specialized material (e.g., thesaurus, almanac, newspaper.) Technology -use the internet to find information General -team work -pacing and staying on track to complete a two day long assignment This lesson is taught over a two-day period of 90 minutes each. Depending on your class, students may be working in the classroom, library, or computer lab. Make sure you have sufficient support to aid you in helping all of your students. It is suggested that a tech savvy person is there to help you throughout the week. Before the task, students need to be assigned to a partner and a colony. Each pair of students needs to have their own colony to research. It is up to you to assign students to a partner or to have them pick their partners. All the colonies can be written on a piece of paper and put into a container of some sort. Each student pair will draw their colony. Be sure to record which students got which colony. Be aware of the varying levels of your students’ abilities to use technology, the library resources, and to be creative in their presentation. Some students may need more help than others to succeed. Also, be aware of your early finishers and make sure they have competed everything. This lesson is very straightforward. It is helpful if you are familiar with common research skills either on a computer or in a library. Also some prepared with different ways for your students to approach the end of lesson creative presentation. Have materials available to your students for displays etc. Materials needed to implement this lesson. -Reserve the computer lab for 2 90-minute periods -Have on hand atlases, dictionaries, maps, almanacs, and encyclopedias -Materials for creative presentations: poster board, markers, glues, overheads, keynote (program to create power point presentations) Each colony has a list of website links that can be used to begin your student’s research. Evaluations will be based on both individual and group work. The final presentation will be assessed based on overall completeness, organization, relevance, creativity, and inclusion of all basic facts. The rubric for how your students will be avaliable is on the student page under evaluation. This is just a suggested rubric. If you have one your class is familiar using, continue to use that one. After this lesson, your
students will be familiar with the 13 Original colonies, and will be
prepared to explore the rest of the United States. A great lesson
to follow would be the creation of a class newspaper where they could
all write articles on their colonies to publish. -The Oregonian Newspaper Last updated on August 15, 1999. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page |
