Career WebQuest

Introduction

Hello and welcome to your new adventure in searching for a career that best suits you. In completing this WeQuest, you will be exploring careers and career paths that interest you. There are 4 basic components to this WebQuest:

  • Introduction ~ An overview of the WebQuest
  • Task ~ The task to be completed
  • Process ~ Instructions to completing the task
  • Evaluation ~ The grading instrument to evaluate your work
Task

Your task will be to explore a career or a set of careers based on your personal preferences and personal interests. You will research a selected career using the Internet and create a presentation using Google Slide to share with the class.

Process

You will have the next six computer classes to complete this WebQuest. So on the sixth day of the project you have to turn in your project for grading.

This research project will start you thinking specifics in a career that you choose to explore. You will be using the Internet to do an in-depth study on a career that you are interested in. You will be looking at the job description, the activities that relate to that job, the education required and the salary paid for doing the work. Once you have gathered this information, you will put it into a Google Slide presentation to be shown to your classmates.

 

Use this link to find what interest you and what career you want to research. http://www.pacareerzone.org Be sure to take notes, bookmark material and use the online journal for additional notes.

Requirements for the Slideshow after you have storyboarded it:

    • Slide 1: Title
    • Slide 2-7: Career information
    • Slide 8: Students will briefly state their reaction to the information gained
    • Slide 10: Cite where the information came from

You will save your slideshow as Career <last.name> When you are done with your Slideshow turn it into the Google Classroom.

There will be an assignment at the Computer Google Classroom web site to turn in your project.

Evaluation

MIDDLE SCHOOL

RUBRIC FOR EVALUATING THE CAREER GOOGLE SLIDESHOW

Student_____________________________________ Date_______________________

CREATION OF SLIDES

Total

Value

Self

Evaluation

Teacher

Evaluation

·       Opening slide with your title and your full name

   5

 

 

·       Minimum of 10 slides; max. of 12

  10

 

 

·       Variety of Google Slides features (transitions, animations, graphics)

   5

 

 

·       Work is properly cited on a slide

   5

 

 

CONTENT

 

 

 

·       Description of career

  10

 

 

·       Qualifications for your career

  10

 

 

·       Examples of schools that offer education for the selected career

  10

 

 

·       One slide stating personal interests

  10

 

 

·       Student’s reflection

   5

 

 

ORGANIZATION

 

 

 

·       Text is well written and ideas are presented in an organized manner

  10

 

 

·       Slides are logically presented

  5

 

 

·       Presentation is visually attractive

  10

 

 

·       Presented Slideshow to your class

  5

 

 

TOTAL POINTS

Final Grade:

100

 

 

Reviewed by:_________________________

* Adapted from Alabama State University, Alabama Learni