This WebQuest is designed to engage students in Internet research while learning about the history of ancient Egypt. Students will read, take notes, and answer questions about a linked site. They share this information with their cooperative group and develop an essay or modify to create a PowerPoint about the results of their investigation. Students create a postcard by illustrating a place they would like to visit and using ten adjectives in a short message describing the pictures. Students play a grammar game in which they practice using verbs and adverbs.
Younger students can play the game to learn to identify verbs and adverbs in English.
Older students might play the game to practice using verbs and adverbs in a foreign language. Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Students research Iowa's parks and trails, plan a day trip to one of the places they learn about, and write a fiction story based on the information they find. In this lesson students create slides depicting visual images in a poem. Students learn about women who fought for change and explore the current status of the battles they fought.