Introduction
Welcome Students
As you know we are studying holidays and special events like:
Easter
New Year
Valentine's day
Halloween
All over the world people celebrate this holidays in different ways, to learn more about them, we are going to do this webquest where you will have to investigate the holidays.
Task
What do you have to?
You will have to investigate the holidays that we have studied in the unit, then choose one and create a digital poster in glogster with the information that you got it, finally share the poster with a partner on google drive and make comments about it.
Process
Step 1
Complete the following chart with the specic information required about holidays.
| Holidays | Date | Brief description | Where it is celebrated | List two tradition |
| Easter | ||||
| Valentine's day | ||||
| Halloween | ||||
| New year |
Use the following links to look for reliable information about the holidays:
Easter
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-easter
Halloween
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween/videos/bet…
Valentine's day
http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/history-of-valentines-day/…
New year
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/new-years
Step 2
When you have completed the chart, choose one holiday and create a digital poster in glogster, include all the information required.
Step 3
When you have finished your poster on glogster, get in pairs and share your poster with your partner by google drive, make comments saying what things are good and what things can be improved about your partner's poster, send it back to your partner and when you receive your comments back, you could change the things you want and when you are ready, send it to your teacher.
Evaluation
This activity will be evaluated with the following rubric:
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Requirements | The poster include the four requirements elements. | The poster include three requirements elements. | The poster include two requirements elements. | The poster include one requirement element. |
| Design | Several graphics used on the poster reflecting students creativity. | Two graphics used on the poster reflecting students creativity. | One graphic used on the poster. | no graphic used on the poster |
| Use of language | No grammar or spelling mistakes. | One or two grammar or spelling mistakes. | Three or four grammar or spelling mistakes. | More than 5 grammar or spelling mistakes. |
Conclusion
In this activity, you have learned about four different holidays, New year, Halloween, Valentine's day and Easter, when and where they are celebrated, what is celebrated and their traditions.