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WEB QUEST ASSIGNMENT Jeremy Jones 11-3-13 EDU 1070 Design a Zoo ( http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~mwarden/curricwebzoo/design.

html) Used as a template for this web quest. Report on an Animal Grade 3 and 4

Introduction I know that you all have a favorite animal. The purpose of this project is to see if you can work with partners to research an animal that you all agree on and can do an oral report and poster. Task Your task is to report on an animal of your teams choice. You will work together to do an oral report for your class and a poster that parents can see at Parents Night. Process You will work in groups of three on this WebQuest to find out information about your animal. Step 1: Decide which animal you want to report on with your team. Check out some of the websites under Facts to pick your animal. Step 2: Assign members of your team to cover: A. General facts about the animal (Animal Facts and General Information). B. Where your animal lives in the world (Animal Facts and General Information, Habitat).

C. Foods that the animal eats in the wild and what zoos feed them (Food). Step 3: Each of you will need to be part of the oral presentation. You may use: PowerPoint, KidPix, and Kidspiration. You may use a laptop or tablet in your presentation. Step 4: Your total presentation should be about five to eight minutes long. A. Make a list of what you will include. Habitats for your animal, interesting facts, foods for your animal, social habits for the animal, how they have their babies, and other facts that you think are interesting or important. B. Decide which team member will cover each part of the presentation. Assemble the information you are going to include in your presentation. Extra Credit can be earned for using pictures, sounds, or videos of your animal in your report (Sounds and Videos). Step 5: Assemble your poster using the facts that you gathered on your animal. You must include pictures and words on your poster and it should be well organized. Step 6: The last step is the presentation to the class. You should know all the relevant information about your animal and be able to answer questions from the class. Conclusion I hope you enjoyed working together to research an animal. I hope you learned about an animal that was interesting to you. Here are a few questions to get you thinking about what we learned and where to go from here.

Were you surprised by how much work and planning it takes to do a oral presentation and poster?

How do you think you could have improved either your oral presentation or poster?

What type of project would you like to plan next?

Evaluation Rubric I will use this rubric to evaluate your presentation and poster. 1 3 5 Each member of the team did their part of the research. You knew what to do and You did not know what Presentation you wanted to say or do before starting. You knew what you wanted to say but did not speak clearly. say before you started. Your presentation was well organized and team worked well together. Your poster was not Your poster was somewhat Your poster was organized, organized, did not answer organized, answered most answered the questions about Poster the questions about your of the questions about your your animal and had four or animal or had zero to one animal and had two or more pictures. pictures. three pictures.

Very few of the questions Research answered only Research were done. part of the questions.

References Animal Facts and General Information http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts/ http://a-z-animals.com/ http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ http://nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/AnimalEnrichment/ Food http://torontozoo.com/EducationAndCamps/FeedingAnimals.pdf http://www.stlzoo.org/animals/animalfoodnutritioncenter/ Habitat http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/CZS/Brookfield/Exhibit-and-Animal-Guide http://www.defenders.org/animal-habitat-factsheets Sounds and Videos http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/

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