Introduction

� Congratulations! You have just become a new PreCalculus teacher. Your first responsibility is to develop a web-based lesson plan about one of the topics you have learned this past year in math class. Remember, your plan must present the material in a way that will help other students learn the concepts and also be creative and interesting. This project is to be a capstone experience for your class this year. There are two main objectives to this WebQuest. First, this activity should be used to reinforce and help you learn the material better since the best way to learn something is to teach it to others. Second, your finished project will become part of a larger resource for future students to use. Best wishes in you new assignment.

Can you develop a web-based lesson plan? To find out more about your challenge, proceed to the TASK page.

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�Your Mission: Prepare a lesson that will help students learn math and utilize internet resources. Your product must also be creative and interesting. Develop a project that you would enjoy using and that other students would also enjoy using (web pages by students for students).

In the process of creating your lesson, you will explore sample WebQuests and learn about making your own WebQuest. You will also learn how to make a simple web-page using Claris Home-page. Finally, you will learn about the math resources available on the internet and how to link them to your site.

The first step: PROCESS

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Process

We will follow these steps in completing your project. Class time will be set aside for most of these steps.

Step 1: Establish a two-person team.

Step 2: Explore some math WebQuests that have already been made. Provide a short summary for each webquest you explore. Check out the resources for how to create webquests.

Step 3: Choose a topic

Step 4: Learn some basics about how to use Claris Home-Page. (templates, pictures-clip art, linking, tables, font-colors)

Step 5: Find resources, pictures, clip art, etc. that you can use to support your lesson.

Step 6: Create your web-pages, modeled after a WebQuest. (Be sure to keep a folder for images)

Step 7: Edit and check all links . Submit the final product-done! -Check out this sample rubric for making webpages.

Evaluation

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Evaluation

Assesment Rubric

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	A	B	C	F
Step 2-Sample quests	3 or more webquests explored	2 webquests explored	1 webquest expored	no effort to explore other webquests
Step 3-Choose topic	Appropriate topic selected	Appropriate topic selected	A topic is selected , but may be too broad or narrow	No topic selected
Step 4-Claris Homepage	Can use homepage to make links and add graphics	Can use homepage to add graphics	Can use homepage -text only	No effort
Step 5-Resources	Project uses 5+ resources	Project uses 3-4 resources (links)	Project uses 1-2 resources (links)	No links to resources
Step 6-Final product	All links and buttons work, use of graphics, creative, quality work	All links work, creative, quality work	All links work	Product not completed.

Conclusion

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Conclusion

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By completing this webquest, you should have acomplished two major goals. First, you should be more familiar with building web-pages and discovering math resources and the web. Second you should have reinforced learning the concepts included in your final project. For ideas and comments about this site, please e-mail.

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