Web-based EFL activities

This linklist was compiled by Jürgen Wagner / 10 - 21 - 2002 - last revised 11 - 26 - 2006 

Impressum: Jürgen Wagner, Heidenkopferdell 47, 66123 Saarbrücken, wagjuer*at*gmail.com

Virtual Discovery Trips

OnestopEnglish City Webquests: Boston, Kingston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Oxford, Sydney

The Bristol Quiz © Bernd Schmoll

Broadstairs Internet Quiz / Town Council Website

A Trip to London © Simon Robins & Peter Freedman

Unterrichtsvorschlag: Thema Scotland (Klasse 7) / Welcome to Scotland Klasse 11 © Kurt Sester (Gymnasium Neckartenzlingen, Seminar Esslingen)

Perth: Western Australia: Web Unit © Reinhard Donath

A coast to coast virtual road trip © Hoa Nguyen

A Traveler's Graphic Journal © David J. Boin

Can You Survive at Jamestown? WebQuest

Virtual Field Trip Links © Dee Ann Hill

An Internet-based Treasure Hunt on China © Tom March - Introduction, questionnaire, internet resources

Virtual Field Trip Guidelines
WebQuests involving Role-Play
 

If you sailed on the Mayflower © A WebQuest created by Jennifer J. Nicholson for Third Graders

JamesQuest: Discovering Virginia's First Colony © Chad C. Fairey

Ellis Island: Island of Hope, Island of Tears: Virtual tour mit 'tasks' und vorgegebenen Links. Die Schüler können durch Identifikation mit exemplarischen Einwandererschicksalen die Ankunft in Amerika nachvollziehen

An Ellis Island Webquest Scavenger Hunt / This Webquest was created by Lauren Joos

Coming to a New Land - A WebQuest for 4th Grade (Reading/Social Studies) - Designed by Priscilla Boersma

Asians in America  © Jim Kowalik & Justin Kuravackal

Wagons West!! A WebQuest for 5th Grade 
Designed by Marsha Jenkins and Lorraine Gaughenbaugh

Adventure into the Unknown ... A WebQuest on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Missy Lanza, Samantha Levin, and Molly Decker

California Gold Rush Treasure Hunt © Museum Educational Foundation, Thousand Oaks, CA , designed and written by Candace Jackson 

Shipwreck Island Adventure! A Mystery Island WebQuest Designed by: Candy Adams, Devon Fisher, and Amara Julian

Be a Reporter on a Voyage of Exploration: A WebQuest for 5th Grade Social Studies Designed by Peter Barnes

Witchcraft Or Witchhunt: 11th Grade Language Arts and Social Science
Designed by Deborah Jacobs

Experiencing India's Caste System / A WebQuest for 6th Grade (Social Studies) Designed by The Edtech 570 Web Quest Team of Rebecca Clark, Mike Guerena, Terri Linman and Daniel Pearson

Little Rock 9 - Intergration 0 ? A Collaborative WebQuest on Racial Desegregation in Schools © Tom March

Une fin de semaine dans le Dauphiné : simulation

Famous Canadians - an inquiry- based webquest (Gerald Robillard & Bob Colvil)

In Search of the Great Deserts © Laura Karl and Laurie Stevens

Business Trip: a WebQuest © David Smith

An American Story: the O'Neil family (who originally settled in the USA at the end of the XIXth century. This WebQuest focuses on the first generation in the family that set foot on the American land) (c) Frédéric Chotard

 

Lifestyles - Customs - Holidays
 

What does it mean to be Australian: a webquest © Cheryl Kerr, Beenleigh State School. Queensland, Oz

The Amish Webquest © ???

A Halloween Webquest © Sonia Meldade / e-teach@listes.educnet.education.fr
Une salle des profs virtuelle pour les enseignants d'anglais

 

Science
 

Hello Dolly: a webquest about cloning - © Keith Nuthall Poway Unified School District / Sek. II

 

Controversial Issues
 

Webquest: The Death Penalty in the United States © Michèle Henry

Champions of Justice: A Human Rights Webquest  © webquestdirect.com

Global Warming Webquest © Michelle Friedeck and Tiffany Leslie

Global Warming: an Inqiry-Based WebQuest designed by Gerald Robillard

Global Warming & Australia : a WebQuest / Website adapted by E. Bendzulla from one produced by T.Lynch, Queensland

Global Warming: WHY IS IT SO HOT? by Margie Calderon and Jenny Rosario

Global Warming Webquest Created by: Jessica Chandler & Angela Megaw

 

Crime & Mystery
The Death of King Tutankhamun: Was it Murder? a webquest © Washington Intermediate School, Pekin, Illinois

Catching Crooks: Exploring the FBI (Webquest über dié 10 meistgesuchten Verbrecher und Identifikationsmethoden des FBI) © Philippe Benz

WhoDunnit? © Linda C. Joseph and Linda D. Resch
Literary Subjects
 

Brave New World © Florida State University

To Kill a Mockingbird © Gena Stephens / FSU

Romeo and Juliet © Julie Young

King Hereafter - An Internet WebQuest on Macbeth created by Christopher Masling

An Ernest Hemingway Webquest © Holzwarth / Hartland Elementary School

Anne Frank Webquest  © B. Koch

 

Politics / Famous Personalities

Presidential Election 2000 - Race for the White House (Web Unit) © S. Krehbiehl

US Presidential Elections / a webquest by Uwe Klemm

George Washington: An Internet Treasure Hunt for ESL students © Susan Silvermann

Dr. Martin Luther King: a webquest (mit PowerPoint Timeline)

A Scavenger Hunt on Famous American Women: prepared by Lisa Kermes, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

About the United Kingdom © Michelle Henry

 

Young People's Issues
 

Teen Smoking and Drinking: A WebQuest for high school health classes © Kathy Reynolds

Why do I have to go to school? © Paul Plummer

 

Unclassified 
 

German American Internet Scavenger Hunt © Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D

 

WebQuest Theory
 

The WebQuest Page © Bernie Dodge (Examples!), Readings and Training Materials, Creating a WebQuest

A WebQuest Taskonomy: a taxonomy of tasks (Bernie Dodge)

Active Learning on the Web © Bernie Dodge

James Rainville: Missions virtuelles

Planung und Durchführung einer Web Unit © Kurt Sester

Vom Lehrbuch zur Web Unit (Beispiele zusammengefasst aus dem Aufsatz von Stefan Ulrich: Vom Lehrwerk zum WWW und zurück, FU 1/2001) © Kurt Sester

Auf das Lehrwerk English H Highlight abgestimmte Web-Units, sortiert nach Bänden © Cornelsen

Auf das Lehrwerk English G 2000 abgestimmte Web-Units, sortiert nach Bänden © Cornelsen

Alle lehrwerksbezogenen Cornelsen Web-Units thematisch sortiert - und lehrwerksübergreifende Web-Units zu spannenden Themen

Reinhard Donath: "Meine dokumentierten Web-Units"

Web-Unit 4: "Newspaper" im Englischunterricht © Reinhard Donath

Web-Units zum Ausprobieren: Seminar: Closing in on the Internet in the Foreign Language Classroom SoSe 2000 (Bach / Donath - Uni Bremen)

Weaving the Web into Your K-12 Curriculum: A WebQuest designed for use with pre-service and in-service teachers © Bernie Poole, Beckie Randall, Tom Snyder Productions Summer Institute for Advanced Technology Integration, August 2002

Web-Units: "Aktivitäten für verschiedene Klassenstufen, die auf sorgfältig ausgesuchten Internetadressen aufbauen. Die begleitenden Fragen und Aufgaben ermöglichen den Schülerinnen und Schülern auf unterhaltsame Weise ihr Englisch sowie ihre Medienkompetenz zu üben und mehr über die verschiedenen Themen zu erfahren." (c) Klett

edHelper.com: Webquests

The internet, a constructivist approach © Philip Benz

 

Using a WebQuest in your Classroom © Internet4Classrooms

 

Computer Integration Activities - Integrating Technology into the New Curriculum © workshop created by Gerald Robillard - Our Lady of Peace School

Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students: "The theme of this article is the value of raising young people to think, explore and make meaning for themselves." © Jamie McKenzie

Rubrics for Web Lessons © Nancy Pickett and Bernie Dodge

 

Creating WebQuests / Workshops
 

A WebQuest Workshop -  What is a WebQuest? What are the benefits of WebQuests? How did WebQuests start, and how have they developed since they became popular? What are the essential parts of a WebQuest? What kinds of topics lend themselves to WebQuests? What do I need to create a WebQuest? What are some critical perspectives? How can I use WebQuests in conjunction with other educational techniques?

Tutorials: How to create a Webquest © Trip 1

ESL Webquest Workshop: an online tutorial © James Rainville

Adapting and enhancing existing webquests © Bernie Dodge

A road map for designing webquests © Bernie Dodge

Spider T-Net A website developed by David Young (U of Colorado at Denver) to help teachers create WebQuests collaboratively with middle school & high school students.

Creating WebQuest © Airlington Public Schools

A Webquest on creating a Webquest © DBartrow

Webquest Template: Put the title of the lesson here

Welcome to Recycle City © Derrick A. Swistak

Fine Points: Little Things That Make a Big Difference This page was designed by Bernie Dodge

A Web Quest about Firemen and Fire Safety Designed by Walda Brooks

WebQuest Academy: Creating curriculum-based Internet activities for K-12 students © Stan Smith / Instructional Technology Coordinator, Warrensburg, Missouri

 

WebQuest-related Links
 

Webquest-related links © Ecole Whitehorse Elementary School / Pearl-Hodkins

Web Knowledge (Scavenger) Hunts for Secondary Education © Bernie Poole

WebQuest Links © sitesbysheridan.com

The TeachersFirst WebQuest Collection

Put Your School On The Web - A Webquest for high school students -  also suitable for teachers and administrators, designed by Leanne Twidwell

Yorkville Districts 115's WebQuests © Yorkville CUSD / Sylvia Torto

Webquests: Endangered Species. Let's go to NYC, About the UK. Royal Palaces, Dickens and Victorian Times, Let's go on holiday, Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, The CIA, The White House and Washington D.C:© Michelle Henry

Student Webquests: einfache, von Schülern erstellte Webquests: Welcome to the United States Secret Service, A Zeppelin for the 21st Century © Philippe Benz, Lycée Astier

Tom March: Criteria for Assessing Best WebQuests (avoid the 7 red flags)