Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. A web quest is group project that uses the Internet to help students gain insight and make some decisions about difficult or debatable issues. This web quest deals with animal rights and zoos. In it, the students look at different sides of the issue in order to determine whether zoos can be humane to animals. Each student is assigned to a group and a role.
Every student is responsible for reading the core readings.
The students also create a final project in which they design a zoo that takes all opinions into account and is a healthy and happy place for animals. In addition to articles and links, the site provides a glossary, text and electronic resources, and a teacher' s page. The teacher's page contains suggestions for using cooperative learning, tips for classroom management, and extension questions.