Activity for a food/restaurant unit:
Students go to the McDonald's website and answer various questions about the menu. They discover the ingredients of certain foods, compare McDonald's in Spain to those in the United States, and comment on the food's nutrition. Students must read questions, write responses in Spanish, and finally discuss their opinions with a partner.
Skills practiced:
*present tense
*passive se
*food and restaurant vocabulary
*comparisons and superlatives
This activity is designed to get students thinking about what they want to do after they graduate, and to help them take the first steps in making a plan. The students will research three universities or technical institutes, developing an understanding of the location and the cost to attend each school. They will gain an understanding of the entry requirement for each school as well as the amenities and majors that are available. The learners will grow to understand the crime rate and demograph
This student choice based webquest will help students learn about invasive species in their own state. It has a brief introductory video to watch and summarize and then lets the students choose which organisms to research. The webquest can easily be modified by changing the state name at the top and then changing the list of organisms using https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/subject/lists#state .
This document is an online scavenger hunt, ideal for high school or middle school students in a music classroom. This worksheet was created for a unit on copyright & fair use laws, and acts as a fun and easy way to assess student's understanding of the unit.
On the worksheet, students are asked to find examples of free music online and explain why they are legal. This scavenger hunt could be done as an individual or a group project, and may even provide you with new music resources!
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Using the free website and app Fooducate, students research their favorite foods to evaluate their nutrient content. Many packaged products contain preservatives, artificial colorings, and chemicals most people would never recognize. Fooducate provides research backed explanations as to why these chemicals are there and what they could potentially be doing to our health. This site also provides a breakdown on the nutrients so students can better read and interpret nutrition labels. I personally
One of the great lessons from Arthur Miller's The Crucible comes from learning about the allegory. Yes, this play is about the Salem Witch Trials, but it is also something more! Introduce your students to the time in United States history with this great assignment. With this lesson, your students will learn the about the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials! This assignment works very well as a pre-reading activity.
This WebQuest was designed for students to participate in an independent learning day. They will explore the history of constellations, how the skies above us change over time, and the shapes of different constellations.
Who should be allowed to vote, and why does it matter? In this activity, students will examine a variety of primary and secondary online sources to learn more about the women’s suffrage movement. Each section includes a resource (or resources) on the left and questions or a task on the right. Students will open the link, read or examine the source, and complete the questions or task. This activity is designed for a 90-minute block or two 60-minute class periods. It can be used as independent wor
Lab #6 in my lab series.NOTE: This lab requires access to a computer and the PhET Plate Tectonics Simulation Website.Students use the PhET Plate Tectonics Simulation to describe the differences between continental and oceanic crust, to identify and describe the three types of plate boundaries, and to describe the geologic features created by each type of plate boundary.I have had great success with this lab. My students enjoyed using the simulation and by having them draw time-lapse sketches of
Students will use compound interest to determine if a college fund that was started for them as a baby will cover all of the expenses once it is time to go to college.
This is a current Executive Branch- Bureaucracy- Internet search activity for the F.B.I. I have made 25 questions from searching within the F.B.I. website. I end with a conclusion question that asks them to think about the size of our federal government today and relate as to why this agency should be kept or decreased in size.
It is very easy for the student to tour the website with my step by step procedures before they answer a question. I try to make government come alive and make sense t
This unit allows for exploration of renting and owning. This is meant for the high school student getting ready to go out into the world with lots of questions.Is it better to buy or rent?Is it better to take out a 15 or 30 year mortgage?What costs are included in renting?Complete the 8 steps on this webquest using the websites provided.1. You will create 6 vocab cards on your own.2. We will discuss important rules.3. We will finish statements using the websites provided.4. More statements will
You are downloading a worksheet that covers different types of Google search strategies. The activities cover category searches, file type searches, and Boolean searches. Students will use the hyperlinks within the document as well as Google to complete the activities. This is an electronic fill-in worksheet that can be competed on the screen. The venn diagrams are not fillable.
This lesson compliments my Internet, Browsers, and Search Engines lesson (in my TpT store) very well.
In this worksheet packet of 8 pages, students will create a Thanksgiving dinner menu using specific criteria, strategic shopping, conversions, place setting, and recipe adjustments. This calls for critical thinking and calculations. Students can investigate recipes via the internet and enjoy discussing thanksgiving dishes while working individually. This took my class two to three class periods to complete. ~~Please leave a review so I'll know I'm on the right track. :) Thank you!
This is a Spanish American War Webquest to use with the Smithsonian's "The Price of Freedom: Americans at War" website. This will give students a basic understanding of the Spanish American War. This could be used as an introduction to the topic or as a review.
This resource is a one page document with website links taking students to various map quizzes. This resource is best used by the teacher to share links with students. It's also perfect for providing students the document as a week+ long assignment where students can click a new link every day.The resource includes maps for:- U.S. States- Northeast- Southeast- Midwest- Great plains - Western states- U.S. Bodies of waterand global maps for comparison.Suggested: use the global maps to discuss diff
I used this when going over the US Imperialism Era, including the Spanish American War and US's relationship with China, Hawaii, and Latin America. It includes links to videos, readings, pictures, and a interactive timeline.
CHEMISTRY: Students will review Quantum Mechanics by learning Aufbau Principle, the Pauli Exclusion Principle, and Hund's Rule. Students will also practice writing electron configurations, noble gas notations, and orbital notations. A WebQuest worksheet is also attached to help students visualize the 3D orbitals.
This scavenger hunt requires students to search the internet or use a child development chart (for ages birth to 5 years) to answer a variety of questions about the development of gross and fine motor, social, language, and self-help skills.
Students must access nutritional information about their favorite fast food meals and then redesign them into healthier options that add up to less than 600 calories and less than 25 grams of fat.First students will select a restaurant at which they would normally eat. Students must then write down the foods and drinks (with sizes) that they would normally order that that restaurant. Students must be sure to use the nutrition guide from that restaurant to look up the calories, fat, sodium and su
This webquest was designed to help students learn about how credit and credit cards work, evaluate their risks and benefits, compare different types of cards, and reflect on whether a credit card is the best choice for them. Designed for Canada.
Embark your students on a webquest that helps them explore the nutrition of carbohydrates! Have them take a look at the role of fiber, the glycemic index, and the role of sugar in our diets!