ø Designed to be completed in one to three class periods.

ø Designed to take between one week and one month.

ø Sets the stage and provides some background.

ø Should orient the learner as to what is coming.

ø Should raise some interest in the learner through a variety of means.
 

ø It must be doable and interesting.

ø A description of what the learner will have done at the end of the exercise.

ø Could be a product or a verbal presentation.
 

ø Clearly described steps.

ø Lets the learners know the process to go through to accomplish the task.

ø Can also provide learning advice.
 

ø A list of Web pages, which the instructor has located, that will help the learner accomplish the task.

ø May include resources not on the Web.

ø Not all resources may be used by all students.
 

ø Justifies expense of using the Web for learning

ø Measures knowledge gained by learner

ø Examines student product and establishes benchmarks

ø Often takes the form of a rubric

ø Evaluation rubrics designed by the teacher are the most authentic assessment.

ø Evaluation rubrics take different forms.
 

ø Summarizes the experience

ø Reminds the learner what they have learned

ø Encourages reflection about the process

ø Extends and generalizes learning

ø Brings closure to the quest

ø May suggest questions for follow-up activity.

This is a supplementary page that can be extremely useful to teachers that have done a Web search and have found your site and would like to use it with there students. It contains information that will help a teacher see how you plan to use the WebQuest.
 

ø Think about providing information for teacher who may choose to use your project with their students. 

ø Do you need specific "offline" resources? 

ø How long will this project take?

ø Are there any prerequisite skills?

ø What is/are your essential question(s)?
 

ø This is a list of all materials used in creating your site that are beyond those used on the Resources pages provided for the students use.

ø If you maintain a detailed Annotated Bibliography when doing the research for your project all the material can be easily transferred to this page.

ø List the sources of any images, music or text that you are using.

ø Provide links back to the original source.

ø Say thanks to anyone who provided resources or help.

ø List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.

ø Become familiar with resources online in your content area.

ø Organize the resources into categories like databases, reference material, etc.

ø Identify topics that fit in with the curriculum and which there are materials online.
 

ø WebQuests are normally group activities.

ø Include motivational elements around the basic structure such as role-playing.

ø WebQuests can be either a single discipline or interdisciplinary.