Webquest review
I found an interesting project ‘Landscape Design’ on the Webquest site which looked to be a creative look at area, hopefully applicable to some 7-10 lessons in the NSW math syllabus.
Landscape Design
Strengths:
- Well suited to group work as specific tasks can be assigned to the students
- It involves some higher-order thinking through the creating and designing aspects of the quest
- Well presented with interesting pictures and worksheets
- All the resources were computer based and even the worksheets could be typed in ‘word’
- Involves possible uses of the web, ‘powerpoint’ and ‘word’
- Involves perimeter, area some volume and costing into a single project
- Has simple potential for adaption to the NSW syllabus
Weaknesess:
- Needs extra direction and clarity for group work roles
- It could be done by a single single student, although this would be difficult
- Mostly low order procedures with no real analysis and few real decisions
- Not actually published on the web
- Some links (marking Rubric etc) didn’t work
- 1st floor area calculation doesn’t link in well, distracts and confuses garden porject
- Lacks necessary direction for where exactly the land should go (inclusive of the house or next to?)
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