Teacher Resources

Class Preparation: Discuss

What a WebQuest is. For instance: A WebQuest is designed by a teacher to present a problem children can solve by finding information. Going through the steps one by one leads students to the information/processes needed to solve the problem.

The importance and the advantages of learning how to get through a WebQuest with statements such as:

Importance: In your school career, you will have a lot of them. WebQuests mimic real-world problems. They teach students to get information from multiple sources and put it together in a new way.

Advantages: Students can work at their own speed. There is lots of room for creativity. WebQuests usually involve an element of imagination. They are fun.

What students need to know to complete Percy's Quest:

1.  How to open an Internet Browser and find the Title page.

2. That to complete a WebQuest the student needs to go step by step. Each step builds on the one before it.

3. That reading a WebQuest is different from conducting a search. When students are evaluating sources for specific information, text should be read quickly. Students look at subtitles, captions, highlighted words - scanning the contents quickly to decide whether or not the information is helpful. That kind of reading might be useful when using a WebQuest link, but THE ACTUAL WEBQUEST ITSELF MUST BE READ WORD FOR WORD.

What students need for the WebQuest:

1. A print-out of the Question Sheet, Percy's Quest.

2. A computer with Internet access.

Resources:

The knights on these pages came from : http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa061898.htm. The rest of the clip art is from Microsoft Office. The background and pictures are original. Feel free to use them.

Although I did not use this site, lots of medieval images are available at: http://digiserve.com/heraldry/clipart.htm