THE WILD ANIMALS WEBQUEST

This is a webquest for Primary children, about 6 or 7 years old. 
It can be adapted if the children's age varies:

1. INTRODUCTION

Do you like animals? I bet you even have a pet! But, how mucch do you know about wild animals?
In this webquest we will learn everything about them, their habits and characteristics.

Here we can watch a short video and learn a bit more about wild animals!

In this webquest we will learn many different facts about these animals who live far away from us.

2. TASK

In this webquest we will learn about wild animals. We will work in grpus of 5 children, so you have to work with you classmates and distribute the work.
The task you are going to do is to create an oral presentation about some selected animals and then to present it in front of the class. You will select 5 animals per group and you will collect the following information for each of them:. 

You will create a Power Point presentation and each member of the group will study a different animal but in the final presentation all members of the group must know about all the animals beacuse the classmates can ask any questions about all the animals in the group.

3. PROCESS

A) The first activity is looking for information and makig a file for each animal. Here you have the fields you have to complete:
                 FILE:
- Name.
- Image.
- The place where the animal lives.
- What does he eat?
- How many breeding does he have?
- Are there many or little of these animals?

Complete the files with the RESOURCES. Look for information in the following web pages:

+ Information about wild animals

+ Images of wild animals

+ Names of animals

or watch these videos with lots of ideas

+ Wild animals video

+ Wild animals sounds

B) Now, collect the information and complete the animal's file. 

You need to put all the ideas in a Power Point Presentation or if you prefer you can use paper and show it in the final presentation. You have to include pictures of your animals. Follow these indications:

• Name and fotographs
• Where does he live?
• What does he eat?
• How many children does he have?
• What does he do?
• How is the climate where he lives?

C) For the presentation you will explain some important facts about the animal you have chosen, so you need to prepare this part by writing ten sentences about the animal. Here you have some examples:

- My animal lives in the forest.

- My animal has many children

- My animal does not live in cold places.

- My animal needs a lot of sun.

We will revise all the sentences in class before the final presentation

4. EVALUATION

After the oral presentation in class, we will evaluate our work. I will evaluate your presentations but your classmates will evaluate you as well. So, you have to prepare it very well in advance. 

Evaluation is very important because we can see how good or how bad we have done the presentation.

With an evaluation we can see our mistakes and correct them next time. All the children in class are involved in everyboby else's presentation. 

For a correct evaluation here I have an evaluation scale:

• Use of Internet:                                              excelent       good         bad         
• Information collected:                                     excelent       good         bad         
• Cooperation of the members of the group:     excelent       good         bad         
• Pronunciation in the oral presentation:           excelent       good         bad         
• Creativity in the explanation:                          excelent       good         bad         

5. CONCLUSION

This webquest is a group work and you can realize that you have made an excelent work working with your classmates.
In this webquest we have practiced how to collect, organise, plan and present information which is very useful for our future because we can use this type of presentation in many aspects of our life.

 Keep the good work for future webquests and for everyday's work in class!

Now, some questions for the participants of this webquest:

• What things did you find most enjoyable?
• What parts of the webquest were the most difficult to do?
• Did you find it easy to work with your partners?
• Did you find any problems looking for the information?
• Were you relaxed doing the oral presentation?

Now, think about future projects related to this webquest. You can do a similar project about your pets or any other thing you need for the school.