WebQuest

What is a WebQuest?

is a learning activity using by educators.its not a real web site ,with less technology.and can be saved as a word document.

There are two kinds of webquest

• long term WebQuest:1 week to 1 month


• short time WebQuest:designed to work for less than 1 week
  "A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.

Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the Internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland. "(1)

Teacher can use the webquest in the classroom,by creating it by themselves or by finding it on the Internet.

webquest has three parts

• introduction: Write an introduction to your WebQuest that will give students some background about your topic. Try to interest them.Include some general information, a picture, and/or audio files.


• What is expected from the students to do with the webquest,answer questions or writing essay


• explain how to do by giving the students a list of information(2)

The benefits of the webquest:

To use new techniques in merging the curriculum with technology that develop the students' higher thinking skills and to study the web-quest, what it contains, how it is designed and recognise its effects to enrich the teaching learning method.