Web Quests

A web quest is a special type of online exercise.  

It usually involves the following steps:

  1. students are presented with a problem, opportunity or challenge

  2. students form groups and take on various defined roles

  3. students search for relevant information from teacher-defined sources

  4. students present their findings in some way

This site explains web quests in more detail.

 

Web quests can be used in a wide variety of ways:

This site describes various ways that web quests can be designed along with some examples.

Here a few more sample web quests:

Turtle Beach Hotel - students must decide whether to allow a hotel to be built on a beach where turtles nest.

Online learning Web Quest - a web quest about online learning.

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