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The objective of this Web Quest is to develop comprehension and factual text through research and recording data on the Solar System.  The use of the Web also requires the students to develop cooperative group skills. 

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Blooms Taxonomy

Multiple Intelligences

Gregorc's Learning Styles

Strategies to Increase Retention

Affective Domain

Goals and Objectives:

The Learners Will Be Able To:

                      * use research skills to collect information

                  *write in complete sentences using proper grammar rules

                  *apply newly learned information to their paragraph

                  * illustrate their work

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards

3.2 Writing

B. Writing as a Product

C. Writing Forms, Audiences, and Purposes

3.3 Speaking

A. Discussion

B. Questioning (Inquiry) and Contributing

C. Word Choice

D. Oral Presentation

3.4 Listening

A. Active Listening

B. Listening Comprehension

3.5 Viewing and Media Literacy

A. Constructing Meaning

B. Visual and Verbal Messages

C. Living with Media

5.4 Nature and Process of Technology:

A.  Science and Technology

 B.  Nature of Technology

5.9 Astronomy, Space Science

B. Solar System

8.1 Computer and Information Literacy

A. Basic Computer Tools and Skills

                      *Keyboarding

             * Internet usage