Webquest

=WebQuest=

This project was particularly challenging for me and definitely took a bit of creativity on my part. For this assignment I created a webquest, which is a grouped classroom research project. My webquest, for instance, simulates an assignment my the International Mathematics Union and asks each group of students to research mathematicians using the links provided and report back to the group. This is an interesting use of the web in the classroom that would never have otherwise occurred to me. This project is perfect when you want to give your students the feel of a research project but do not want to send them out on a chase throughout the entire web either because of safety, time, or resource restrictions. I got to choose which sites my students looked at to get the appropriate information. Although this project was perhaps more difficult to apply to mathematics than other fields due to the limits of content requirements, a lesson like this one in math history could certainly prove useful for students.