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Goals & Objectives

The goals of the WebQuest is to have the children gain a better understanding of the four seasons.  The students will gain a better understanding of how important the seasons are to the world.  They will see that weather changes occur during each season and how these changes affect them where they live.   

The students will be able to identify the months the seasons occurred, activities that can be done in each season, the temperature/weather, appropriate clothing, explain the characteristics of the environment, and build vocabulary words pertaining to each season. 

New Jersey Core Content Curriculum Standards

Curriculum Standards

STANDARD 3.4  (LISTENING) All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

STANDARD 3.5  (VIEWING AND MEDIA LITERACY) All students will access, view, evaluate, and respond to print , non-print, and electronic texts and resources.

STANDARD 5.1 (SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES) All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected  by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conduction systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

STANDARD 5.8 (EARTH SCIENCE) All students will gain an understanding of the structure, dynamics, and geophysical systems of the Earth.

STANDARD 8.1 (COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY ) All students will use computer applications to gather and organize information and to solve problems.

Learning Styles

Concrete Sequential:  This learner has some of the characteristics of being well organized, task oriented, and detailed.  They enjoy hands on learning, workbooks, and computers.  They prefer concrete materials to learn.  The WebQuest will be enjoyed by the concrete sequential learner. 

Abstract Sequential:  This learner is intellectual, analytical, and critical.  They enjoy lectures, reading, and reporting.  They will enjoy writing a reponse about what the weather is like for each season.

Concrete Random:  This learner likes to experiment, enjoys independent activities and taking risks.  The concrete random learner will enjoy making the individual poster that will allow them to express all they learned on the seasons. 

Abstract Random:  This learner is imaginative, emotional, and flexible.  They enjoy group work and peer-teaching.  They will enjoy working and exploring the WebQuest with their group and going back to share what they have learned.  

Multiple Intelligences

Verbal Linguistic:   The students will complete a journal activity that explain what the weather is like where they live. 

Mathematical - Logical: The students will read the temperature on a thermometer during the dress a bear activity. 

Visual - Spatial: The students will use the WebQuest which shows colorful pictures and has activities that will engage the students.  The students will also complete a poster. 

Bodily - Kinesthetic:  The students will use the computer to complete the WebQuest.

Musical - Rhythmic:  The students will watch a video in United Streaming called Magical Mother Nature: The Four Seasons. 

Intrapersonal:  The students will work independently when they will find the information from the WebQuest based on the question they picked from the season can.  They will also present their findings and complete an individual poster with all the information learned from all the seasons. 

Interpersonal: The students will work in groups to complete the WebQuest and when they discuss their findings. 

Bloom's Taxonomy

Knowledge: Students will identify activities for each season.

Comprehension:  Students will describe the weather for the seasons.

Application: Students will show the appropriate clothing for the season. 

Analysis:  Students will classify key words for the appropriate season.

Synthesis:  Students will design a poster.

Evaluation: Students will explain the environment for each season.

Affective Domain

Receipt:   The students will be interested because a WebQuest is a new way of learning.  From personal experience any technological activities will engage most students. 

Response:  Through the journal response at the end of the WebQuest, the students will be self engaged by expressing how the weather changes in each season.

Value:  The students will have the opportunity to peer mediate an argument and help them solve their problem.  This will allow the students to realize you need to respect other people opinions. 

Organization:  The students will organize, present and refine their posters to show the understanding of the seasons.

Characterization:   The students will make presentations based on the information gained from the WebQuest and by completing their posters. 

Primacy/Recency Effect

Prime Time 1: The students will watch the video on seasons to gain an understanding of the four different seasons. 

Down Time:  The students will explore the WebQuest activities. 

Prime Time 2: The students will present their information to the class and complete their individual posters and journal responses. 

Sense and Meaning

The students are making sense of the seasons because they experience the seasons first hand while watching the video.  Through this experience they gain meaning of the information of the meaning being taught. 

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Created by:  Monica and Nicole