Curriculum webs: a generalized structure for building web sites to support units of teaching and learning; developed by the University of Chicago's Web Institute for Teachers. Described in Curriculum Webs by Cunningham and Billingsley. For more information, click here.
WebQuests: A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March, and was outlined then in Some Thoughts About WebQuests.
Other lesson types:
Lessons that use non-Internet technologies
- Productivity or application software such as databases, spreadsheets, and web development tools (excellent resource to find lesson plans is Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans)
- Other electronic resources such as electronic encyclopedias, full-text databases, and CD-ROMs
- Probes and other non-computer hardware devices with specific functions (I won't be talking about these here, since they are limited to science and math applications)
A Curriculum Web:WWI: War of a New Century: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Ehvandervoort/myprojectsite/wwihomepage.html
A WebQuest: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: http://www.rapides.k12.la.us/ash/galinsky/galinskysite046.htm
A lesson using other technologies: Giants of the Century (by Microsoft): http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=giant
A Curriculum Web: Mr. Ginsburg's Biology Web Page: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Ecginsberg/wit2002/
A WebQuest: Cloning WebQuest: http://www.geocities.com/cloningwebquest/index.htm
A lesson using other technologies: Fastball Physics (by Microsoft), http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=fastball
A Curriculum Web: Who Am I? http://curriculumwebs.com/Whoami/
A WebQuest: Censorship and Fahrenheit 451: http://www.mediaworkshop.org/humanities/loonam/index.html
A lesson using other technologies: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=dinner
A Curriculum Web: Taste of Europe: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2000/teams/cybertour/tasteofeurope.html
A WebQuest: Eva Peron: Worthy to Celebrate?: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/argentina/index.htm
A lesson using other technologies: Language of the Season (by Microsoft): http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=language