While doing searches for educators, our consultants have found these websites to be very helpful. While the curriculum of each isn’t gifted specific, we recommend teachers use above grade level material and adapt the lessons to fit the individual needs of their gifted students.
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These particular web quests have been posted in our Monthly Educator Guild Posts.
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- Imagination Estimation (Math: grades 3-5)
A way for students to explore estimation. Use their imagination on where they will use estimation in real life. By using subtraction, addition, multiplication, and division.
- What is the most economical way to visit the Seven (Math/Social Studies: grades 3-5)
Students must find a way to visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They will be working as a travel agent at World Travel Agency. A potential client wants to visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. He has already seen several other travel agencies with the same request. Students must find the most economical and quickest way for this client to travel.
- Media Literacy...Add Your Point (Language Arts: grades 6-8)
In this project students will learn about Media Literacy. They will experience analyzing ads and then they will produce an ad that makes a public service point of their choice.
- Genetic Disorders WebQuest (Science and Health/PE: grades 6-8)
Investigate the causes and diagnosis techniques of several genetic disorders through this WebQuest. Students will also explore the impact that living with a genetic disorder can have on a person's life.
- Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project (Science: grades 6-12)
The purpose of this project is to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Students will analyze all of the data submitted by participants to determine this.
- Marx and Nietzsche: An Analysis of Philosophy(Social Studies: grades 9-12)
This WebQuest will help students delve into the realm of philosophy, specifically concerning the philosophical thinkings of Karl Marx and Fredrick Nietzsche.
- CSI: Lord of the Flies (Language Arts: grades 9-12)
A forensics team studies the events in the book LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding. Their goal is the production of a report to be presented to an investigative committee (the remaining students in the classroom). They will be prepared to explain what happened on the island and why?
- Break the Code (Math: grades 6-12)
This WebQuest is about how to use inverse matrices in real life. Cryptograms will be introduced and students will learn how to convert, encode and decode a message.
- I Will Survive! (Science: grades 3-6)
This is an animal adaptation WebQuest designed for middle and upper elementary aged students. The students will compare three animal species and identify similar adaptations.
- Human Cloning? Why Not? (Controversial- Socratic Seminar: grades 9-12)
Human cloning is a hot and critical issue in today’s world. In this quest students work in groups and take roles to explore the subject in detail from the perspective of ethicists or scientists and present their findings in a Power Point presentation.
- Illegal Mexican Immigration (Controversial- Socratic Seminar: grades 6-8)
In this webquest, students will research current U.S.-Mexican border laws and the pros and cons of the current system. They will then choose to either support stricter border laws or support less strict border laws and present their findings in a persuasive Power Point presentation. They will also compose a persuasive letter to Congress voicing their concerns.
- The American Revolution, Was It Worth It? (Controversial- Socratic Seminar: grades 3-5) As 5th graders studying the American Revolution, this WebQuest will give you a chance to research key positive and negative effects the Revolutionary War had on Americans. By the end of this WebQuest, you will decide if you would have fought in the war or not had you lived at the time of the American Revolution and you will try to convince people in your community why they should follow you.
If you find a particularly good lesson plan and would like to share it with us, please email us at edguild@davidsongifted.org.