Using WORD to make a "WEB QUEST" 

Below is an example of a Web Quest that you can make using Microsoft Word. The topic of my quest is Mummies but you can use the same technique with ANY CONTENT...

Here's HOW

Butterfly WebQuest

Additional Web Quest Templates

                              Mummies

What are mummies?

When the student selects the question, it will connect him/her to the site on the Internet that gives the needed information.

 

 http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/what.html

Normally the URL is not in this box, this is where the student would type the answer to the question on the left.
How are mummies made?

 

 

 http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/how.html

How did they make a mummy?

 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/9906/mummies/mummy_making.html

 

 

 
Do you know how to make a mummy talk? http://www.jamesmdeem.com/books.mummy.htm

 

 
What was a funeral mask and

why did they cover the faces with one?

 

http://www.virtual-egypt.com/framed/framed.cgi?url==http://www.neferchichi.com/mummies.html

 
Who was Tutankhamun? http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/kingtut/kingtut.html

 

 
Why did people want to be mummified? http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/Afterlife/Afterworld/AWorld.html

 

 
Who wrote the book "Mummies Made in Egypt?" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0064460118/qid=941072954/sr=1-1/002-4034920-4585026

 

 

How to Make the Quest...

Open Word to a new page, give your quest a title, and maybe insert a clip art. (TIP:to place your clip on next to text...right click on the picture, go to format picture, wrapping)

Now you are ready to insert a TABLE. 

Go to TABLE, INSERT TABLE

This box appears and asks you how many columns and rows you would like your table to have.

You can even select the width of the columns, or wait and size it manually.

This is what it looks like when you press OK

Now, click on the table and when the double arrow appear, just pull it to the size row and column you would like.

Uneven, just click and highlight the entire table and right click on the table...a box appears that will allow you to select Distribute Rows and Columns evenly

Save your work 

 

Minimize your document by clicking on the first of the three little boxes in the uppermost right hand corner of your screen. *This will reduce your screen, but it's not gone, just resting on the toolbar at the bottom. By clicking on it you can open it back up when you need it.

Now you have some planning to do...what questions do you want to ask...to help go out on the web and look for sites on your topic. I suggest, if your plan is connect your quest to one of those sites, that you use a kid's search engine (filtered sites), it will save you time and worry.

Some sites I suggest are:

Now, once you have a great site in front of you, and a question in mind, minimize* the site window. Bring up your document and first type in the question. Highlight the question, click on the Hyperlink tool on the toolbar...it looks like the world sitting on a paperclip.

 

Okay...here is the tricky part...with your document in the background and this box sitting on top...

Go down to the toolbar and click on that web site you want to connect to.

Now that the Internet site is open...on top of everything else...go to the URL (address window at the top)...right click to copy the address (it will be highlighted)

Then minimize that window and HAZZAH! the address will magically appear in the hyperlink box!

 

Your question is now linked to that Internet site.

When your quest is done, save it on a disk.

Students can bring up the quest, save it in their name.

Next they read the question, go to the site for the information, minimize the Internet window, type in the answer and they are ready for the next question.

That's Called MULTI-TASKING!  

Here is a great quest for grades 1-3 about Butterflies
It was created by an undergraduate student of mine, Ricki Cohen.

 

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