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Introduction
You
are a wonderful sea creature in one of the Earth's oceans. You have
enjoyed your life . It has been quite interesting. However,
you know that human's do not know much about you. Therefore, you
would now like to share your life story with human beings.
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The
Task
Your
life has been splendid and dangerous at times. You are now in a place
to reflect on it and do some research in order to create a presentation
of your memoirs. You will share your life story as a sea creature
in a PowerPoint Presentation so that children around the world will know
more about you. You hope that by knowing more about you, the children
will care about the Earth's oceans more.
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The
Process
checklist
The
following are the steps you must take
in
order to tell your life story as a sea creature.
1.
First you will be assigned to a team of 2 students. (This means that
you will be working with one partner.)
2.
Then, you need to decide what type of sea creature you are. Are you
a:
3.
Collect information about your: habitat, size, life cycle, food, predators
and appearance.
If you did not find the necessary information in the above link for your
creature, please use the following aquarium and ocean life links.
Or search for the information needed on one of the following sites using
your creature name +life cycle, +habitat, +size, etc.
(Example: conch
+life cycle)
4.
You and your partner should paraphrase the information you find on your
resource sites, and include a bibliography slide on your PowerPoint.
You may save pictures you find on the sites in order to embed them into
your PowerPoint slide presentation. However, you MUST site the reference
for the image directly under it.
For
help with citing web resources look in your agenda book or check out:
5.
Once you have collected information about your life as a sea creature:
life cycle, habitat, size, food as well as images of your-creature-self,
you may begin constructing your PowerPoint. For this section, you
should receive guidance from your teacher.
HELPFUL
HINT: A complete PowerPoint presentation is like a wonderful meal and the
information on each slide is like a little taste. Therefore, the
printed information on each slide should just be a jumping point in order
to make the presentation more full through verbal elaboration. Here
are two helpful PowerPoint Tutorials to go along with your teacher's lesson.
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6.
Present your PowerPoint to your class.
Please
use this checklist
in order to keep track of your steps.
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Evaluation
You
will be assessed in this project by your teacher.
Your
final grade will be determined by the points earned with the following
rubric.
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Beginning
1 |
Developing
2 |
Accomplished
3 |
Exemplary
4 |
Score |
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CONTENT
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Contains
mediocre stories about the sea creature's life story utilizing 3 of the
five categories. |
Contains
satisfactory stories about the sea creature's life story utilizing 3 of
the five categories. |
Contains
good stories about the sea creature's life story utilizing 4 of the five
categories. |
Contains
well developed stories about the sea creature's life story: life cycle,
food, predators, appearance, habitat.
Contains
no spelling mistakes. |
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DESIGN
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Color,
font, animation, graphics and sound do not work well together. All
points are visible on the screen.
The
slides are disjointed and do not work together as a unit. |
Some
of the Color, font, animation, graphics and sound work well together.
All points are visible on the screen.
The
slides are disjointed and do not work together as a unit. |
Color,
font, animation, graphics and sound work well together. All points
are visible on the screen.
The
slides are disjointed and do not work together as a unit. |
Color,
font, animation, graphics and sound work well together. All points
are visible on the screen.
The
slides work together as a unit. |
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REFERENCES
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Resources
were not cited |
Most
resources were not cited or resources were cited in the wrong form. |
Most
resources are cited but a few images were not. |
All
resources used are cited including images. |
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CREATIVITY
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The
life story data is not told in the first person, from the viewpoint of
the individual sea creature
The
student did not develop their own twist for the presentation. |
The
life story data is told partially in the first person, from the viewpoint
of the individual sea creature
The
student did not develop their own twist for the presentation. |
The
life story data is told in the first person, from the viewpoint of the
individual sea creature
The
student did not develop their own twist for the presentation. |
The
life story data is told in the first person, from the viewpoint of the
individual sea creature
The
student developed their own twist for the presentation. |
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PRESENTATION
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Some
slides have too much data. The student does not elaborate on the
data cited on each slide. |
Some
slides have too much data. The student elaborates on some of the
data cited on each slide. |
Some
slides have too much data. The student elaborates on the data cited
on each slide. |
Each
slide has no more than three points. The student elaborates on the
data cited on each slide. |
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Conclusion
By completing
this project you will have:
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developed
your skills utilizing MS PowerPoint and
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learned
more about the life of sea creatures.
I
hope you have enjoyed this WebQuest. Have fun learning in the future.
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Credits
& References
Google
Images: sea creatures April. 2001. 16 Dec 2001
<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.mythinglinks.org/
Sea~creatures~doveraczc6.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.mythinglinks.org/
ct~floods.html&h=333&w=231&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsea%2Bcreatures%26num%3D20%26hl%3Den>.
This
template was acquired with help fromThe
WebQuest Page.
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