Webquests for Science

Webquests are a really good idea. Sometimes it can be a bit of a kop out to say to a class. 'Use the internet to research...' whatever. A webquest is more directed yet still encourages independent learning and evaluation of sources and all the good things about general research tasks. It is also easier to set up assessment criteria.

There are a few good ones on the ideasaboutscience.com website that address one of the more difficult to teach aspects of the GCSE Science courses. It would not take long to make your own however. If you are using a learning platform you could put it on your classes homepage and have some resources in Word format for example for the students to write in their findings. You could then ask them to submit this to you for marking through the learning platform where the assessment criteria are available for them to look and give them the opportunity to ask questions to you through a forum set up for this purpose.

It would be quick to set up. Even quicker if you used content material someone else had produced!