Static Magnet Therapy Webquest Teachers

This webquest was designed for a High School Physics class. It should be incorporated into a class after the students study electricity and magnetism. This webquest works on developing student skills in critical evaluation of data from multiple sources and developing a consensus recommendation in a committee. This webquest was developed to complete course requirements for a graduate level education course at California University of PA.

The entire webquest is done with a committee of six students. Day one of the process sub-divides the committee into three groups of two students each. The quest culminates with a group presentation. Students will be evaluated with the greatest weight given for their individual work, but they will also be receiving credit for their group work.

This webquest may used concurrently with three other similar webquests to be developed by the same author. The additional webquest all relate to magnetism (Maglev Train Design Recommendation, Power Lines, Magnetic Fields and Cancer, and Crop Circles) and all ask students to evaluate research, claims, and theories from multiple sources. Students are asked to compare the claims against their own scientific knowledge and make a consensus recommendation. The webquest week culminates with presentations from all four different webquest groups.

Interested in making your own webquest to use in your classroom? You can go to the Webquest page and learn more about them at http://webquest.sdsu.edu/. There you will find information on how to develop webquests, samples of other webquests and templates to get you started.