WEEK 9

Hooray! No midterm and spring break has finally come!

Okay, back to business. As I evaluated a webquest (WQ) this week and previewed plenty more, I'm starting to get a better feel for my own. At this time, I am still deciding on the topic and the "hook". Since I am teaching high school US government and economics, I have been trying to located more resources to use in the class as well.

My Googling skills are becoming stronger where I can usually find what I am looking for on the first or second try.

Here are some websites that I have located for this week:
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/High-School-Government.pg_00.html
Which lead me to some additional sites:
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/ (TIME magazine website for kids)
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ (CNN Student News page)

I've had an interested week with my Google searches. Even though Google is my usual search engine, different laptops show different results even when I type in the same subject matter for what I am looking for!  Good thing, I didn't close the tabs on my laptop! Time to save those links on my portaportal!

It's also time to look over the California Content Standards again to see how my WQ can align with those standards. I want my WQ to be fun and engaging where students want to solve it.

I think that's it for now. I'll be reviewing the other assignments for the upcoming weeks.