Introduction
This webquest is designed for a 3rd grade science class. The students will work alone but this overall assignment will call for collaboration. The students will be learning about different climates, population, a certain location in relation to the Equator. Finally the student will write a sentence or two on this particular place
in the class blog!
Hello wonderful class,
great job on
making it to the appropriate site! This is webquest,
and you are about to create a webquest yourselves! I know that all of you guys have had a great summer vacation, and I want to hear all about it! This blog will help you learn to figure out how to know the climate of certain locations, the population, indicate if you were below or above the Equator, and then write a sentence or two on this particular place in the class blog!
Task
This assignment is going to be completed alone but will call for collaboration. Each person in the group must contribute one location that they went to this summer.You will do much research on atleast four different vacation spots that was visited. In this research you will discover the climate, population, whether this place is above or below the equator, and write about your favorite part of this particular location in the class blog!
Process
1. Each student must come up with one location that they visited this summer.
2. Begin with one of the locations and figure out the population by going to the following website.ce you do this, go to your twitter account and only tweet the population number and then hashtag #summertimepopulation.
http://www.freemaptools.com/find-population.htm
As you see in the example below, you have to type in the location, then create a circle around the place but tapping the location. The population of the area of the circle will be below the map.
3.Once you do this, go to your twitter account and only tweet the population number and then hashtag #summertimepopulation.
example tweet: 249,569 #summertimepopulation
4. Next, go to weather.com to figure out what the weather was like the day you went there! This is an easy task. When you get to the website, you must first type in the location, then select month; next you can find the weather during your time at this place!
5. Now, let me know whether you were above or below the Equator! Use the website below to figure out where your location is in relation to the Equator. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imagee.htm
6. Write 1-2 sentences on this location and what you enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) on the class blog! Make sure to demonstrate your understanding of the place you chose! Go to http://padlet.com/cochocki/zfil9e0lwu2x to write your sentence.
Make sure to check out your classmates tweets and their comments on the class blog!
Evaluation
| CATEGORY | 8- 10 | 5- 7 | 1- 4 | 0 |
| Overall & Conclusion | Student's completed each portion and met all the requirements grammatically. | Student completed most of the steps | Student completed one or two of the steps. | None of the following was met. |
| Population | Student fully completed each step of the population aspect correctly. | Student completed this step fully but was not accurate. | Student partially completed this step | None of the following was met. |
| Weather | Student fully completed each step of the weather aspect correctly. | Student completed this step fully but was not accurate. | Student partially completed this weather step and was not accurate. | None of the following was met. |
| Equator | Student fully completed each step of the Equator aspect correctly. | Student completed this step fully but was not accurate in the location of place. | Student partially completed this weather step and was not accurate. | None of the following was met. |
| Class Blog | Student submitted 1-2 sentences on the location they went to in the class blog. | Student completed this step fully but did not demonstrate understanding. | Student partially completed this weather step and was not accurate. | None of the following was met. |
Conclusion
Now that you have completed the 6 different steps in this assignment, I want you to make another tweet! This time tweet about one of your classmates destinations by stating "One of my peers went to _______ this summer!" Make sure to use the hashtag #summertimehotspots
