Inquiry-Based Project

• Overview of Inquiry-Based Project
• Types of Inquiry-Based Projects
  • Teleresearch
  •  Research Lesson
  •  WebQuest
    •  Components and Types of Tasks for WebQuests

    • Sample WebQuests:

      • Matrix of Examples from Bernie Dodge

      • Examples from Eduhound

      • WebQuests from Teach-nology

      • http://www.accesswave.ca/~hgunn/Webquests/webquests.htm

      • WebQuests developed by my former students

• May incorporate Judi Harris's telecollaboration activity structures that you reviewed recently.

• Expectations (we will jointly design a rubric for me to use in evaluating this project), but here are my general expectations:

  • Applicable to your students

  • Tied to the Utah Core Curriculum

  • Incorporates the principles of engaged learning

  • Emphasizes higher order thinking skills, may incorporate the Big6 ("What needs to be done?  What can I use to find what I need?  Where can I find what I need?  What information can I use?  How can I put my information together?  How will I know if I did my job well? " (Culpepper, 1996 cited in Grabe & Grabe, 2000, p. 142).

  • Designed with a web tool such as:  TrackStar or UEN Tour's Editor, or  another instructor-approved web-design tool.  For students who are accomplished web designers, you may use Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver, FrontPage or code your own page, but obtain instructor approval before starting work.

  • Linked to your "My UEN" page and incorporate the "rubric tool."

  • Visually Appealing

  • Other????

Activity 1:  The UEN "Activities" Tool

The UEN Activities tool may be used to guide students to educationally appropriate web sites and to pose questions for them to answer.  A sample "Activity" is shown on my "My UEN" page: http://my.uen.org/57308. Teachers have created several activities (see: http://www.uen.org/activities/html/www_activities.html). 

Review the tutorial for using the "Activities" tool and also refer to the " Web Activity Menu" from within your "My UEN" activity's tool to design a practice activity for your students.  Here are some directions I developed for using the "Activities" tool.

Design a practice "Activity" using the UEN "Activities Tool."  Make a link to your practice Activity on your Public UEN page.  Be prepared to participate in a group discussion re: the intended use of this tool and creative uses of the tool.

NOTE:  You may post your Activity on your public "My UEN" page without selecting the "Publish" feature within the Activity tool.  Publish adds your activity to the UEN database so that other teachers can search for activities and access them.  If you do not wish to have your activity added to the database, but you do want to make it public so it could be used by your students, return to your "My UEN" page and use the "Edit" feature to make the activity public.  Then, you simply refer your students to your "My UEN" URL to view the activity.

Activity 2:  TrackStar

Trackstar may also be used to develop your Web-Based Inquiry.  To familiarize yourself with this tool, we will develop a practice track in class.  In preparation for today's class, you have registered for Trackstar and reviewed the TrackStar tutorial.