EDTECH at Boise State University

Webquest designed to help students navigate through various websites while teaching them about online shopping and healthy eating habits.

Dedicated to changing the way we eat and influencing schools to change their habits in how they feed children.

Website administered by the USDA to educate all about the food pyramid. Contains tons of great tools for teachers, kids and parents.

Click on each building to learn more about places in the community: Post Office, Fire Station, Police Station, Hospital, School, Library. For each, there is a linked page with a cartoon image (Ben Franklin dressed up as each worker), a description, and some include a link for more information.

Click on the workers to learn more about their jobs: Veterinarian, Librarian, Pizza Maker, Utility Worker, Mayor, Police Officer, Firefighter, Pediatrician. For each, a series of pages includes text and images. Students can click on speaker icons to hear page text read aloud. Optional "test" questions can be answered at the end of each workers' section.

This resource from Utah Education Network includes a literature list, print resources and a related web site/video.

Community safety section includes links to a variety of pages: Getting Around, Hanging Out in the Neighborhood, Helping Out in the Community, Riding Right, and Safe Shopping.

Being safe in our community means being safe on the playground. This website offers an abundance of information related to safe play in the community (school, home, playground).

Learn about firefighters and fire safety. This web site will be part of the "How to be Safe in Our Community" portion of the thematic unit.

Locate your community then draw on Google maps. Create custom, embeddable maps, with annotation, shading, markers, etc. and save maps for future reference. "Pro" version offers more tools and save options and is free but registration is required.

Part of the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood web site, visitors choose one of four neighborhood types - suburban, construction site, farm, castle/imaginary - and build their own community. Various building types, trees, bushes, forms of transportation, and animals are included.

People in the community help us - match the picture with the job.

Share stories and photographs of the places in our lives.

WebQuest takes students through the community to see what different workers/helpers do.