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**WebQuest Created by:** Sarah Falconer  **WebQuest Created for:** Mrs. Gunn-Robertson's Split Grade 4 to 5 Homeroom

 **Grade Level:** 4 - 5  **Created:** As part of a unit on Early Explorers  **When:** March 15, 2008, during my second 2-month teaching internship at Milltown Elementary School
 * Subject:** Social Studies



**New Brunswick Social Studies Curriculum Objectives:** //Culture and Diversity// – Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of culture, diversity, and worldview, recognizing the similarities and differences reflected in various personal, cultural, racial, and ethnic perspectives.  //Interdependence// – Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interdependent relationship among individuals, societies, and the environment – locally, nationally, and globally – and the implications for a sustainable future. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">//People, Place, and Environment// – Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among people, places, and the environment. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">//Time, Continuity, and Change// – Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past and how it affects the present and the future. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Language Arts Objectives:** Reading and comprehension skills are being promoted and developed in this WebQuest – comprehension of narrative and informational texts, making connections and inferences, generating questions, generating answers, comparing and contrasting, exploring cause and effect, and using prior knowledge and predicting skills. In addition writing skills are being developed. In completing the tasks, students get the chance to practice their skills in various forms of writing – retells and recounts, summarizing, fictional narratives, letter writing, information/descriptive texts, explanation, and persuasive text. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Mathematics Objectives:** Some of the tasks within this WebQuest promote and develop the use of mathematical skills such as spatial sense, number sense, creating and solving word problems, and so forth.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Differentiation:** The tasks in each of the sections were created with differentiation in mind. My aim was to create activities that would appeal to students with different strengths, abilities, and interests. The students are grouped and complete the tasks in their assigned area. These are what “intelligences” (using Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences) I believe the product section of each area suits: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">//The Voyage//: Spatial, Naturalistic <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> //Settlement//: Bodily-Kinesthetic, Logical-Mathematical <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> //Resources & Trade//: Logical-Mathematical <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> //First Nations People//: Spatial, Musical <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> //Survival//: Verbal-Linguistic

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Complexity of Educational Objectives/Skills:** The tasks in each of the sections were also created with a sense of their complexity and what they demanded of the students in mind. I considered Bloom’s Taxonomy when creating them. The complexities of the tasks range from knowledge up through Bloom’s levels to synthesis and evaluation/creation. My aim was to create tasks in each area of this WebQuest that would encourage students to complete tasks along this continuum of complexity.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> **Enrichment:** Students who complete their work early have the opportunity to complete projects in the EXTRA ACTIVITIES JUST FOR FUN section. Here they will find instructions on how to make a simple compass, a quill pen, or their own coast of arms. There are also various other educational and fun activities they can take part in on this website.

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 * Remediation:** The tasks within the group research areas are varied in terms of their complexity. Students needing remediation are placed in areas with less complex or demanding work to be completed and may be provided extra time in which to complete their assigned tasks if necessary.

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 * Accomodations:** Students are accomodated by encouraging them to complete parts of their tasks in short bursts, allowing them to complete their work while standing, and providing time for quick walks around the classroom and/or computer lab if necessary. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">