Essential questions
1. Review Essential Questions (after reading and studying this section, you should be able to distinguish between essential questions and non-essential questions, between higher order and lower order questions and be ready to generate at least one essential question for the unit you are about to begin):
2. Working in a small group (be sure you know each other's names, grade levels, subject areas):
- Review the following website (review 3 to 5 different webquests):
- Prepare a simple powerpoint to answer the following questions:
- What makes a webquest a webquest?
- Which webquests would you recommend?
- What makes some webquests better than others?
- What tools do you think are helpful for developing webquests?
3. What webquest (topic) might you be interested in developing? Discuss with your group.