Pompeii RevisitedA WebQuest for 6th Grade (Language Arts) Designed by Kathleen Pellicer |
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IntroductionThis WebQuest was designed to fulfill the requirements for CUIN6320. The patterns and designs of this project were developed as part of the San Diego Unified School District's Triton Project, a federally funded Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. This lesson is designed to develop the critical thinking and narrative writing skills of all 6th Grade Students, the more advanced ESL, Honors and Gifted and Talented at Spring Woods Middle School. LearnersThe lesson can be amplified to reach 6th through 8th Grade students, it is most crucial for the 6th Grade as they are studying world History. Students will become proficient users of graphic organizers and time lines as they read the maps and images, photographs and texts of this lesson.
Curriculum StandardsStudents will gain skills interpreting images, text, idioms and analogies (TAKS 6.10B,D). The WebQuest offers students the opportunity to summarize and organize ideas to create a meaningful whole (TAKS 6.10G). Furthermore students will learn to provide the structure for progression of ideas, to locate and recall information (TAKS 6.10E). The process includes the steps necessary to represent text information in different forms, such as outline, timeline and graphic organizer. Finally students will learn to draw inferences and make conclusions and evaluations which they must support with evidence (TAKS 6.10H and TAKS 6.12I). ProcessStudents will be invited to visit ancient Pompeii through present day ruins, researched on this WebQuest. Within each assigned group of 5, students will want to choose his/ her jobs. A map keeper and scout acquires appropriate maps and investigates each place. An historian and archeologist helps clarify the findings. An architect examines and helps analyze the site. A scientist, a geologist measures and describes the movement of the earth land masses and visits the volcano. Each group will provide the itinerary they have chosen to follow and the forms with which they entered the data for approval. Finally, each member will describe each day's journey in a narrative travelogue. Conclude the unit with a whole group sharing their trips, reading from portions of their journal. The Teacher will guide the way through stumbling blocks that might occur.
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A field trip to the Museum of Natural Science will follow the completion of this project. EvaluationSuccessful completion of the journals will mark the highlight of this project. Students sharing at the end from their journals and publishing on my website will conclude the study. ConclusionStudents will have developed voice and worked alone to create a narrative text. Each task master must work together to create the brochure. Credits & ReferencesSpecial thanks to AltaVista, I also wish to acknowledge MarcoPolo for guidance. Thanks to Dr. Wren Bump, Cynthia Clayton, Andrea James, and Athena McNeel. I wish to express my gratitude to The WebQuest Page and the Design Patterns page. All interested parties can acquire the latest version of this template and training materials. "We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest, update or otherwise modify it, and post it elsewhere provided that the original author's name is retained along with a link back to the original URL of this WebQuest. On the line after the original author's name, you may add Modified by (your name here) on (date). If you do modify it, please let me know and provide the new URL." Last updated on (8/6/03). Based on a template from The WebQuest Page | |
