Web Lesson & Final Project Rationale

The purpose of the Web Lesson is for students to work cooperatively with numerous Web resources to gain enough information to become knowledgeable about the curriculum areas.

The Web Lesson allows students to acquire learning on their own without the teacher being the "expert" or "giver of knowledge". Learning becomes more of a cooperative, investigative learning with a culminating project that incorporates sharing their knowledge with the rest of the class.

In the Web Lesson all students will gain the same basic knowledge, then in the Final Project students will become "specialists" in an area, develop their direction of learning presentation focus, and finally, present their project in class.

The Final Project extends that learning into a problem solving, presentation format. Students must present their learning to peers as well as on the Web by incorporating their learning into a problem-solving format. The problem-solving scenario presented precludes any chance of students just repeating knowledge gained. Judgments must be made as to importance and relevance of material.