Lewis

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Lewis Clark Rediscovery Project

• University of Idaho
• Technology InnovationChallenge Grant
• US Department of Education

Supplemental Workshop 1 February 1-2, 2001Golden
Triangle Curriculum Cooperative
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A Montana Quest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here)

• Designed by
• Put Your Names and Your E-mail Addresses Here
• Put Your Names and Your E-mail Addresses Here
• Put Your Names and Your E-mail Addresses Here
• Put Your Names and Your E-mail Addresses Here
• Put Your Names and Your E-mail Addresses Here
•  Produced for the Lewis Clark Rediscovery
  ProjectA Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
• Rediscovery Project Corps Quests are based on a
  template from The WebQuest Page by Bernie Dodge
  and EdWeb _at_ San Diego State University

Introduction Task Process Evaluation
Conclusion Credits Teacher Page
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Introduction

• This Corps Quest document should be written with
  the student as the intended audience. Write a
  short paragraph here to introduce the activity or
  lesson to the students. If there is a role or
  scenario involved (e.g., "You are a detective
  trying to identify the mysterious poet.") then
  here is where you'll set the stage. If there's no
  motivational intro like that, use this section to
  provide a short advance organizer or overview.
  Remember that the purpose of this section is to
  both prepare and hook the reader.It is also in
  this section that you'll communicate the Big
  Question (Essential Question, Guiding Question)
  that the whole Corps Quest is centered around.

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The Task

• Describe crisply and clearly what the end result
  of the learners' activities will be. The task
  could be a
• problem or mystery to be solved
• position to be formulated and defended
• product to be designed
• complexity to be analyzed
• personal insight to be articulated
• summary to be created
• persuasive message or journalistic account to be
  crafted
• a creative work, or
• anything that requires the learners to process
  and transform the information they've gathered.
• If the final product involves using some tool
  (e.g., HyperStudio, the Web, video), mention it
  here.
• Don't list the steps that students will go
  through to get to the end point. That belongs in
  the Process section.

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Process

• To accomplish the Corps Quest task, what steps
  should the learners go through? Use the numbered
  list format in your web editor to automatically
  number the steps in the procedure. Describing
  this section well will help other teachers to see
  how your lesson flows and how they might adapt it
  for their own use, so the more detail and care
  you put into this, the better. Remember that this
  whole document is addressed to the student,
  however, so describe the steps using the second
  person.
• First you'll be assigned to a team of 3
  students...
• Once you've picked a role to play....
• ... and so on.
• Learners will access the on-line resources that
  you've identified as they go through the Process.
  You may have a set of links that everyone looks
  at as a way of developing background information,
  or not. If you break learners into groups, embed
  the links that each group will look at within the
  description of that stage of the process. (Note,
  this is a change from the older WebQuest
  templates which included a separate Resources
  section. It's now clear that the resources belong
  in the Process section rather than alone.)
• In the Process block, you might also provide some
  guidance on how to organize the information
  gathered. This advice could suggestions to use
  flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or
  other organizing structures. The advice could
  also take the form of a checklist of questions to
  analyze the information with, or things to notice
  or think about. If you have identified or
  prepared guide documents on the Web that cover
  specific skills needed for this lesson (e.g. how
  to brainstorm, how to prepare to interview an
  expert), link them to this section.

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Evaluation

• Describe to the learners how their performance
  will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be
  a common grade for group work vs. individual
  grades.
• Rubric

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Conclusion

• Put a couple of sentences here that summarize
  what they will have accomplished or learned by
  completing this activity or lesson. You might
  also include some rhetorical questions or
  additional links to encourage them to extend
  their thinking into other content beyond this
  lesson.

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Credits References

• List here the sources of any images, music or
  text that you're using. Provide links back to the
  original source. Say thanks to anyone who
  provided resources or help.List any books and
  other analog media that you used as information
  sources as well.

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Teacher Page

• Put the Title of the Lesson Here
• A CorpsQuest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here)
• Designed by
• Put Your Name HerePut Your E-mail Address Here
•  ltPut some interesting graphic representing the
  content heregt
• Introduction
• Begin with something that describes the origin of
  the Corps Quest lesson. For example This lesson
  was developed as part of the Lewis Clark
  Rediscovey Project, a federally funded Technology
  Innovation Challenge Grant.
• In this second paragraph of the introduction,
  describe briefly what the lesson is about.
  Remember, the audience for this document is other
  teachers, not students.
• Learners
• Describe the grade level and course that the
  Corps Quest lesson is designed to cover. For
  example "This lesson is anchored in seventh
  grade language arts and involves social studies
  and math to a lesser extent." If the lesson can
  easily be extended to additional grades and
  subjects, mention that briefly here as well.
• Describe what the learners will need to know
  prior to beginning this lesson. Limit this
  description to the most critical skills that
  could not be picked up on the fly as the lesson
  is given.
• Curriculum Standards
• What will students learn as a result of this
  lesson? Describe the outcomes succinctly. Use the
  language of existing standards. For example
• Social Studies Standards Addressed
• Recognize the relationships among the various
  parts of a nation's cultural life.
• Learn about the mythology, legends, values and
  beliefs of a people.
• Most lessons don't just teach a block of content
  they also implicitly teach one or more types of
  thinking. In addition to describing learning
  outcomes within traditional subject areas,
  describe what kind of thinking and communications
  skills were encouraged by this lesson.
  Inference-making? Critical thinking? Creative
  production? Creative problem-solving? Observation
  and categorization? Comparison? Teamwork?
  Compromise?

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Teacher Page

• Continued..
• Process
• You can paste in the process description given to
  students on the student page and then interleave
  the additional details that a teacher might need.
• Describe briefly how the lesson is organized.
  Does it involve more than one class? Is it all
  taught in one period per day, or is it part of
  several periods? How many days or weeks will it
  take? Is it single disciplinary,
  interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or what?
• If students are divided into groups, provide
  guidelines on how you might do that.
• If there are misconceptions or stumbling blocks
  that you anticipate, describe them here and
  suggest ways to get around them.
• What skills does a teacher need in order to pull
  this lesson off? Is it easy enough for a novice
  teacher? Does it require some experience with
  directing debates or role plays, for example?
• Variations
• If you can think of ways to vary the way the
  lesson might be carried out in different
  situations (lab vs. in-class, for example),
  describe them here.
•  Resources Needed
• Describe what's needed to implement this lesson.
  Some of the possibilities
• Class sets of books
• E-mail accounts for all students
• Specific software (how many copies?)
• Specific hardware (what kind? How many?)
• Specific reference material in the classroom or
  school library
• Video or audio materials
• If the lesson makes extensive use of specific
  websites, it would be appropriate to list,
  describe and link them here. It would also be
  helpful to link the names of books suggested to
  Amazon or other online sources.

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Teacher Page

• Continued..
• Evaluation
• How will you know that this lesson was
  successful? Describe what student products or
  performances you'll be looking at and how they'll
  be evaluated. This, of course, should be tightly
  related to the standards and objectives you cited
  above.
• You may want to just copy and paste the
  evaluation section of the student page into this
  space and add any clarifications needed for
  another teacher to make use of this lesson.
• Conclusion
• Make some kind of summary statement here about
  the worthiness of this lesson and the importance
  of what it will teach.
• Credits References
• List here the sources of any images, music or
  text that you're using. Provide links back to the
  original source. Say thanks to anyone who
  provided resources or help.
• List any books and other analog media that you
  used as information sources as well.