Webquest

 

Welcome to your

Wet Water Wander 

on the World Wide Web

Introduction

The South Australian Government has set aside a sum of money to create an underwater world as a gift to the people of South Australia to celebrate the Centenary of Federation.

Task

You and your partner have been chosen to design and develop an underwater world

What will your world look like?
Which creatures will live in your world?
How will the creatures survive?
Share your design with your classmates.

 

Resources

Links Page

Library Suggestions

Procedure / Process

Your Teacher will match you with your design team

Part 1. 

Brainstorm with your partner about what your world or environment might look like.
What will you need to include?
Draw your first design of your world using the computer. Save and print this first design.

Hint - you may like to do this as a concept map

Part 2. 

Select creatures to suit the world you have designed
Find out what you can about your chosen creatures

Hint - you may like to present this information as a table - 

here is an example 

Animal Eats Needs
Dolphin Fish Lots of space, other dolphins
Leafy Sea Dragon
(Phyllopteryx eques)
Small shrimp Clumps of seaweed for camouflage

 

Part 3.

What will your creatures need to survive?

Hint - you may like to think about food chains here

Part 4. 

Design your world
Discuss with your teacher about how you plan to share it
Share your design

Hint - Here are some suggestions for how you might like to share your work

Poster, Slideshow, Website, Talk, Animation, Play, Newspaper, Promotional Brochure.

 

Evaluation

Your classmates will evaluate your presentation. 

They will be looking for

Creativity
Original Ideas
Working well together
Learning something new
 

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WOW

ŠJudy Beal and Kathryn Beilby, 2001

Updated March 2001