WebQuest Search Results:
Grades 6-8 Math
77 WebQuests found. To see a WebQuest, click on its name.
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Grade/Content Areas
50.00
The task is to find out enough about the workings of the stock market to be able to analyze and interpret the charts on Yahoo's Finance page and to be able to draw some conclusions about the effect of September 11 on the airline and defense industry. Students will write a press release accompanied by charts, facts and news to support their conclusions.
Submitted before July, 2003.
English/Language Arts Math Technology
50.00
Learn about animals and life in the jungle.
Submitted before July, 2003.
English/Language Arts Math
50.00
The purpose of this project is to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Students will analyze all of the data submitted by participants to determine this.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
50.00
Students will understand that how the four step method is useful in solving most mathematical problems. Students will understand how to choose successful strategies for a certain problem. The student will be able to rewrite or explain the problem in his/her own words.
The student will be able to evaluate one or multiple strategies to devise a plan for solving the problems.
The student will be able to write up the solution to the problem in an organized and complete manner.
The student will be able to asses if the solution is reasonable.
The student will know the 4 step method of problem solving.
The student will know the 10 problem solving strategies.
Submitted Jun 10, 2004
Math
50.00
Students, working in teams, research the history of chocolate by creating a chocolate timeline, explore the life cycle of the cocoa plant by creating a flowchart, discover how companies mass-produce chocolate by reporting on one major company, think about starting their own chocolate business by creating a brainstorming mindmap, learn to budget by making a spreadsheet, and create a kaleidocycle business card. Online chocolate trivia puzzle and process rubrics are included.
Submitted Jan 27, 2005
Art/Music Business English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
47.33
After researching place value and numeration systems, students create a base-4 numeration system for a primitive alien tribe.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
47.00
The students are asked to research and compare adn graph data using excel
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Social Studies
45.00
Discover the process of turning sap into sugar.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
45.00
Students explore symmetry and transformation in the "real world" and create a final project using web resources. (This was my first attempt at a Webquest.)
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
44.00
Students retrace the footsteps of Lewis and Clark in an effort to understand the changes that have taken place in America since their historic journey.
Submitted May 11, 2004
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Social Studies Technology
42.66
Solve real-life problems involving Internet research and higher level math skills. New URL.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
42.50
Take a concept from geometry and portray it as a poem and an animated graphic.
Submitted before July, 2003.
English/Language Arts Math
42.28
The students use the Internet to take an imaginary vacation somewhere in the US and then present it.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Social Studies
41.66
Students compare the accuracy of different weather forecasters to learn basic concepts in statistics.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
41.50
Research 3 colleges of choice. Investigate tuition rates and other expenses. Find scholarships.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Life Skills/Careers Math
40.00
Student are on a reality t.v. show were they must spent a certain amount of money to furnish, decorate, and up keep a house and live in this house for a certain amount of time.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
38.66
Analyze career paths and investment habits needed to become a millionaire in one lifetime.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
38.00
Use spreadsheets to modify a recipe and develop a shopping list for a large party.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Technology
34.25
Analyze the statistics leading up to the NCAA Basketball championship games.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Health/PE Math
33.75
Set up a budget and a lifestyle.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Life Skills/Careers Math
31.66
Imagine that you are a designer of hats. You have just left Hat Design school and have been asked to put an example of your hat designs on a page on the internet. In order to do this you will need to complete at least 5 odf the following tasks
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Technology
31.00
Roller coasters, like other amusement park rides, are designed using physics laws to simulate danger. Students work in teams as historian, physicist, and design engineer in order to research the science of roller coasters and design the ultimate scream machine for a fictional theme park.
Submitted Dec 19, 2003
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
30.87
Use mathematical concepts to evaluate the hockey players of National Hockey League teams.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Health/PE Math Technology
28.66
This WebQuest has students researching information about weather and presenting a weather broadcast to the class, props and all.
Submitted Dec 3, 2003
Art/Music English/Language Arts Life Skills/Careers Math Professional Science Technology
26.16
Design a house using plans, considering costs, energy use, etc.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Business Math Professional Science
22.80
Research symmetry, patterns, and tesselations using art from many cultures.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Art/Music Math
19.00
This Quest will help students “virtually” visit and experience another world culture.
Submitted Oct 23, 2003
Math Social Studies
0.00
Students can now enjoy locating information on the Maya! Learn about Mayan daily life, Mayan Math, Mayan glyphs, and Mayan games.
Submitted Aug 17, 2004
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Social Studies Technology
Activities built around a simulation about plane flight and math.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
You are being hired as interior decorators to design newly remodeled rooms.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Life Skills/Careers Math Professional
Collect data about athletes, scatter graph the data, and make predictions about future performance.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
Students determine and defend a position on the healthfulness of a food through analysis/research
Submitted before July, 2003.
Health/PE Math Technology
Analyze real-time data to try to prove a causal relationship between the moon and tides
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
Design, conduct, analyze and write up a student opinion poll.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
This webquest has students learn about the "Fractured Placement" scoring system used in Figure Skating, and then apply it after viewing the actual free skate performances of the top 4 Ladies' Figure Skaters at the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games. Afterwards, they must evaluate whether the current system is preferable to proposals that would replace it.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
Sci-Fi fantasy - This interdisciplinary book project includes chapter study guides with fascinating math/science links; links to historical figures; final book projects; and Madeleine L'Engle & her works. (LA, ELD, M, Sci., SS. Hum.)
Submitted before July, 2003.
English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
Examine positive and negative aspects of cities, draw scatter plots, and write letters to public officials.
Submitted before July, 2003.
English/Language Arts Math
Examine the importance of and statistics concerning rainforests, then develop a plan of action to correct the problem.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Social Studies
This Quest is a prelude to the Stock Market Simulation Game which I play with my eight grade students.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Business Math Technology
The WebSurf Pitágoras is a WebQuest to be used in context of the classroom of Mathematics. It promotes the use of the Internet as a space of educative research, through a coherent and intuitiv structure. It is about a guided challenge pupil to develop a small research in the Internet on the Pitagoras Theorem and to present it to the group in one template (model of the Word). The WebSurf has a conceptual organization with the necessary indications for the work of the pupil and the professor.
Submitted Aug 10, 2003
Math
By comparing the accuracy of different weather forecasters, students learn some basic concepts in statistics.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math Science
Every year, millions of families buy school supplies for the start of a brand new year. Can you imagine being able to walk into a store and find a box that has all the school supplies you need? No need to hunt down the aisles for different products on sale, you would be able to pick up one box which has it all! This webquest is going to allow you to create a business that builds boxes of school supplies that will be sold to families as a more convenient way to purchase school supplies. In the process, you will find out what sells and what doesn't. You will use your math skills to determine deals and you will use your artistic abilities to market a product.
Submitted Dec 27, 2004
Business Math
This is a Webquest that involves the students in the planning of a birthday party.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
Students are to design and price a backyard landscape.
Submitted before July, 2003.
Math
In this lesson, students will organize and plan the menu for a class picnic using online grocery shopping websites. They will be required to develop an appropriate menu with proper quantities for the entire class. They will have to determine unit prices, make brand selections, and produce a recommended menu and a recommended online shopping website.
Submitted Aug 23, 2003
Math
This webquest gives students a word document with a list of questions about the stock market and trading, then gives them 5 websites where the answers can be found. It also directs students to go to VirtualStockExchange.com to sign up for a virtual account from which to trade stocks.
Submitted Nov 15, 2003
Math
This WebQuest demonstrates how tessellations may be used outside of mathematical concepts.
Submitted Dec 3, 2003
Math
How would you like to be designer of most thrilling roller coaster imaginable? Would you rather be a script designer and create a cultural show that will leave the guests longing for more? How about devising a plan to create a pavilion at a major amusement park? Sound intriguing? All of these things are possible in the world of EXPEDITION!.
Submitted Feb 25, 2004
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
Students can experience it was like for African slaves to take flight to freedom with this webquest. This webquest utilizes a jigsaw instructional strategy and tasks are differentiated.
Submitted Mar 25, 2004
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
Compare cell phone rates to make a recommendation on a best plan for a client.
Alg Standard: Systems of Linear Equations
Submitted May 11, 2004
Math
A way of looking at the rise and fall of music as separate lines. These are then transformed into algebraic equaitons, and graphed.
Submitted May 11, 2004
Art/Music Math
Congratulations!! You have just won $5,000!! What will you do with it? You can invest it to potentially make more money, just put it in the bank, or you can do a combination of both. It is up to you, but remember these are big decisions because you could lose some of your money or you can make hundreds! Good luck!!
Submitted Jun 10, 2004
Math
The purpose of this WebQuest is to teach students how to design a computer and then determine the best price to sell it at. A company, New Media Studios, has presented a design request to a student company to design a "low-end" and a "high-end" computer. The students are to go online and find out how to design a computer and then go to several web sites to find the best prices for those parts.
Students engage in activities using persuasive language in business letter writing, spreadsheet work, and a final multimedia presentation.
Submitted Jun 10, 2004
English/Language Arts Math Technology
Students will practice and use properties of transformation to complete a project.
Submitted Jul 2, 2004
Math
This webquest is designed to have 6th grade students research regular polygons and then prepare a lesson to take into a third grade classroom and teach a student there.
Submitted Jul 5, 2004
Math
You are to interview for a specific career in Mathville. Each interview must contain a presentation of your 3-d model explaing it's surface area and volume.
Submitted Aug 17, 2004
Math Professional
Middle school students are chosen to save 20 elements from aliens. The students have to compare, contrast, assign value, and find out which elements humans rely on the most. It also includes making a new periodic table.
Submitted Oct 6, 2004
Math
Designed to support mathematics curriculum for 7th Grade. Students write algebraic expressions to solve equations. This webquest integrates the use of Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines, Technology, and math.
After researching one of the five finalist host cities students, working in groups, are asked to present a brief presentation about why their city should host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Students are required to research and produce written/graphic material to support their presentations.
Submitted Nov 12, 2004
Math
The webquest begins with basics of integers on a number line and ends with the student creating 4 quadrant coordinate plane using the Excel program.
Submitted Nov 30, 2004
Math
While on a visit of Ancient Greece, the students’ family leaves them behind. Luckily, the Xenos family gives the students a place to stay. Their only request is that the students see and learn all that they can about their beloved country. These experienced tourists keep a journal of all the different experiences they encounter. There are many interesting aspects they explore about this ancient country – government, culture, and geometric tessellations!
Submitted Feb 7, 2005
Math Social Studies
The bid to have the Olympics in the beautiful state of Iowa has been accepted! After months of research and deliberation, Cedarloo (Cedar Falls and Waterloo) has been the selected destination. Now, the International Olympic Committee has to form an Iowa Olympic Committee (IaOC) to be in charge of this strategic event. In order to become a member of this committee, the team members must prove proficiency in three vital areas: Scoring, Measurement, and Attendance.
Submitted Feb 7, 2005
Math
To design a pamphlet that warns others (especially kids0 about the dangers of releasing goldfish in the wild
Submitted Apr 6, 2005
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
To design a pamphlet that teaches kids about the dangers of tsunamis, what to do if you're caught in a tsunami and how to recognise early warning signs
Submitted Apr 6, 2005
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies Technology
Using a Harry Potter theme, this Quests helps students develop the skill of decoding word problems as they work through three steps. Finally they create their own word problems with step-by-step instructions for a solution
Submitted May 2, 2005
Math
This is a math/science activity geared toward 7th or 8th grade. Students learn to research data and create graphs and make inferences from the graph using the internet.
Submitted May 27, 2005
Math Science
After completing this Webquest, students will have the experience with planning a trip for a family with diverse interests. Students will
demonstrate a thorough understanding of how to access Internet links to retrieve information related to traveling. Students are going to use their Math skills to fit into the given budget.
Submitted Jul 26, 2005
English/Language Arts Life Skills/Careers Math Social Studies
This is a cross curricular unit on the artic aimed at 8th grade. It includes science, math, theatre, social studies, language arts, literature and debate.
Submitted Jul 26, 2005
Art/Music English/Language Arts Math Science Social Studies
This website addresses the student's needs to practice fraction operations as well as measurement conversion. By having the students work with real world skills such as cooking, the students connect with the work and see it's purpose.
Submitted Aug 10, 2005
Math
The Peak Oil WebQuest was designed for gifted and talented students in upper primary or lower high school. It allows the student(s) to analyse Peak Oil and its impact. The student is then required to create their own strategies that could be implemented to minimise the impact of this potential crisis. The student is able to select an area of interest within the theme and carry out further research
Submitted Aug 11, 2005
Business Math Science Social Studies
Statistics are very important to sports, and perhaps even more so to baseball. Based on those statistics, students decide which players will eventually be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Submitted Aug 11, 2005
Math
In a time where gas prices continue to climb through the roof this WebQuest helps students learn about making good decisions when the time comes for them to purchase a car.
Students begin by locating information about gas prices and the reasons behind their increases and decreases. After they have completed this task they create a spreadsheet that will calculate gas prices and the cost of driving a car of their choice.
Submitted Sep 2, 2005
Business Life Skills/Careers Math
Math concepts, subjects, lesson plans, examples for grades K through 12. Free.
Submitted Oct 14, 2005
Math
Suppose your family is taking a vacation to Canada. You will plan the trip including all the things the family wants to do.
Submitted Oct 17, 2005
Business Life Skills/Careers Math Social Studies Technology
Submitted Oct 18, 2005
Art/Music Business English/Language Arts Foreign Language Health/PE Life Skills/Careers Math Professional Science Social Studies Technology
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Submitted Oct 18, 2005
Art/Music Business English/Language Arts Foreign Language Health/PE Life Skills/Careers Math Professional Science Social Studies Technology
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Submitted Oct 18, 2005
Art/Music Business English/Language Arts Foreign Language Health/PE Life Skills/Careers Math Professional Science Social Studies Technology