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Teacher Page A WebQuest for 1st Grade: The Water Cycle Designed by Morgan
Elliott Introduction
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| Evaluation
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| Credits
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Introduction This lesson was developed to encourage students use of the internet as a resource. Specific websites are given to help show that it is important to have resources that are reliable. This lesson is on the water cycle. It is pointed at 3 concepts in the cycle: precipitation, evaporation, condensation. This is also a lesson that focuses on collaboration with other students and working on presenting to a large group. Learners This is designed for a 1st grade class. It is a lesson to be incorporated during their science unit in the middle of the school year. It may be the first time a group project has been assigned, so it is also a learning experience with collaborating with our peers. This is designed so that it is towards the end of the unit. So that the students have prior knowldge to grasp what they are learning about. This way they will be fimiliar with the words used. There may be some words that they will need help grasping and try to help them to the best of your ability. Curriculum Standards 1.3S.1 Identify and use tools to make careful observations and answer questions about the natural world. 1.3S.2 Record observations with pictures, numbers, or written statements. Process 1. You will be assigned to a group with 2 other students. 2. Then your teacher will come around and each each group member pick which portion of the water cycle you will examine. The 3 options are: - Precipitation Professional - Evaporation Enthusiast - Condensation Consultant 3. Once you have your role, you will use the Internet to research your role. Below are the links for each of your roles: Precipitation Porfessional: Go to- Precipitation Go to the bottom of the pages and click next to go to the next type of precipitation. You will click 6 times. Evaporation Enthusiast: Go to- Evaporation Go to the bottom of the pages and click next to go to the next section on evaporation. You will click 4 times. Condensation Consultant: Go to- Condensation Go to the bottom of the pages and click next to go to the next section on condensation. You will click 3 times. 4. Ask you teacher for paper that you will draw to your best ability about your portion of the water cycle. You may also write about it on your paper if you would like. 5. Each group member will teach their other group members about their portion of the water cycle. 6. You will then go to this website: Water Cycle Game Play the game to test to see what you learned about the water cycle. This will help you put the water cycle altogether. - If you finish early you may scroll down to the bottom of the page to Conclusion and click those links to explore more. 7. As a class, each group will present their information that they learned. You may learn something else that you never knew! 8. To make a cover for your book, your teacher will have a piece of paper and blue paint that you will dip one of your fingers into to make fingerprint rain drops on the cover page! 9. Your teacher will combine each studen's piece of work and assemble a class research book! It can then be in your class library! This lesson is for a 4 day period keep in mind that each class is different and it may not take 4 days. This is if each lesson time is 30 minutes. Have 2 research days provided and 2 days for drawing/presenting. One section is for the research/ drawing and the following day, once the research is done, the drawing/presentations will proceed. The presentations for each group only need to be about 2 minutes, explaining their drawing and what they learned about the water cycle. The groups need to be designed prior to the lesson given. Group students to the best of your abilities on who would work best together. You also don't need to know all there is to know about the water cycle and learn with the class. You have already taught atleast one lesson on the cycle to the students so you will have some background atleast. It is always fun to learn with the students as well! You will want to work on managing the groups and their presentations. Possibly having a timer so that the groups know when their time is up. You may also need to work with the students about presenting if they haven't done so in class yet. Variations You may find that groups aren't working well together, so you may change them around after the first day if needed. Also this could be apart of centers in a way if a lab cannot be checked out and you have a couple computers in your classroom. You can have the groups move around in the centers and have this research on the computer as a center then the next center be the drawing. The next day or so could be presentations if each student gets through the centers. Resources Needed The first thing that will be needed is the computer lab. This will need to be checked out for 30 minutes for 2 days. Each student will need a log in with the district to be able to get onto the computer and access the Webquest. Next there will beed to be materials provided for the drawing. White construction or computer paper and drawing utensils. It is up to the teacher which utensils can be used but some may include: crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. One teacher can give this lesson, but the more help the better. If there are aids or volunteers have them roam around the room to answer any questions the students may have about words on the websites or helping certain students that are struggling logging in, drawing, etc. You may also want a timer to time the presentations so that each group has time to present. Lastly, you will need to have a side project set up with blue paint and a white cover page for the research book. Each student will put their fingerprint on the cover page as a rain drop! Evaluation Each student will be graded individually on their knowledge they acquired while studying a portion of the water cycle.
Beginning 1 Developing 2 Accomplished 3 Exemplary 4 Score Conclusion This is a lesson that not only teaches about the water cycle, but it introduces the internet as a resource. As well as other students in the class when presenting and listening, hopefully information is retained. Also, working on collaboration with peers to understand the water cycle. Lastly, it has a presentation aspect that helps the students teach each other about the water cycle and work on their speech. Credits & References Thanks to all the
websites that provided their resources to make this webquest memorable! Last updated on August 15, 1999. Based on a template from The WebQuest Page |
