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A WebQuest for xth Grade (Put Subject Here)

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Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page

Introduction

[The following is written for a near future election. Change tenses accordingly for an historical election.]

An important election is coming soon, the results of which will have an impact on all of us. What are the important issues on the minds of voters? How will they make their choices? You'll learn the answers by becoming a voter yourself.

Task

Your task is to become informed about the candidates and issues involved in this election and cast your ballot as if you were a particular kind of voter with concerns that might be different from your own. You'll be asked to explain your vote from the point of view of that person and describe how your own vote might be different.

Process

First, get acquainted with the background of this election by studying the links below:

[Put links that develop a baseline understanding of the offices, institutions, branches of government, etc.]

Next, you will be assigned to play the role of one of these people. Examine your role description and think about how the characteristics of that role will affect your vote.

[Here you'll put profiles of 3 to 6 individuals who collectively represent a cross-section of the electorate. Make them multifaceted and use shades of gray; avoid making them cardboard cutouts with only a single point of view.]

Now examine the specific people and ballot measure from the perspective of your voter. To what extent does each candidate support the things you care about?

Click here to see your ballot. You'll fill out two hard copies of the ballot, one as your simulated voter and one as yourself.

Both types of ballots will now be collected and tallied. We'll discuss the results as a class.

Evaluation

Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades. You may want to have separate rubrics for individual and group work.

Conclusion

Put a few sentences here that summarize what they will have accomplished or learned by completing this activity or lesson.

You might also include some rhetorical questions or additional links to encourage them to extend their thinking into other content beyond this lesson. To foster the habit of lifelong learning, give them links to additional information here that they can pursue on their own.

Credits & References

List here the sources of any images, music or text that you're using (with permission, of course). Provide links back to the original source. Say thanks to anyone who provided resources, help or inspiration.

Don't relist all the links you've already included. They're self-documenting.

As a matter of style and to keep ownership clear, all pages that you call up that are external to this site should appear in a new window outside of this frame. Add "TARGET=_BLANK" to the link to bring this about.

List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.

Include a link back to The WebQuest Page and the Design Patterns page so that others can acquire the latest version of this template and training materials.

You might want to include the following statement:

We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest, update or otherwise modify it, and post it elsewhere provided that the original author's name is retained along with a link back to the original URL of this WebQuest. On the line after the original author's name, you may add Modified by (your name) on (date). If you do modify it, please let me know and provide the new URL.

Based on a template from The WebQuest Page