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This is a webquest for sixth grade language arts, and I'm bookmarking it because it's very similar to the format of the webquest I will be doing for Fahrenheit 451. It would be easy to follow this format and change the content as it suits you.

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This webquest deals with the Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. According to the creator: "First, learners will research the context categories for this novel. Next,the learners will synthesize their research by creating five-question interviews between a category expert and an interviewer. Finally, the learners will present their research to the rest of the class as they conduct the interview." I like WebQuests that go outside of the computer.

This webquest deals with the homeless issue in America: what its causes are, what services are available, and even includes a small service-learning component. It's a WebQuest that reaches outside of the classroom and the computer.

This is a good document for helping write a WebQuest even if it is a tad outdated.

This is a webquest where students will work together to write and research ancient Mali. This pertains to a social studies unit that I had to teach last year and would come in handy in the future. Students are working on their research skills.

A webquest for third or fourth graders "The case of the missing trunks." The students work in groups to discover voyage information the famous explorers including Jacques Cartier and Christopher Columbus

Great website for creating your own webquest in for your students.

In this short lecture, Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest sites WebQuests and QuestGarden, talks about the way to view learning games with this equation: Power = Attention x Depth x Efficiency. It actually applies to other uses of technology, not just games

This is a WebQuest creator that doesn't require knowledge of HTML.

This is outdated, but it is fairly similar to my own project, so I thought I would share. It is a webquest dealing with Fahrenheit 451 and propaganda.

This is a Fahrenheit 451-related WebQuest that deals with book banning and how it relates to the Bill of Rights, good to prep students before the Bradbury book.

Though this is a pay site (it's not very much--$20/2 years), Questgarden allows the user to create WebQuests, including supporting documents like rubrics.