10 Uses for Webquest

1. It allows students to familiarize themselves with internet sites that are informative and educational.
2. It provides an easy assignment for a substitute teacher to give to students and keep them occuppied for a full class period.
3. It allows students to explore websites which they do in their free time anyways but with a purpose that relates back to the class.
4. It's a more fun assignment that has students learn while being entertained.
5.Teachers can use a variety of question formats so that many learning styles can be incoporated.
6. Students stay within a certain time frame but can designate as much time to the individual tasks as they need to.
7. It allows teachers to be creative in making and laying out the assignment.
8. It can be used for group projects as well as individual tasks.
9. It allows for different mediums of learning such as videos, songs, interactive sites, maps, etc.
10. It provides material to open up large class discussions and have students collaborate with each other.