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Free 8th grade webquests for Microsoft Word
Medieval Manor Life Webquest
From History Ninja, students will explore life in a typical medieval European manor through an investigative online quest. Students will learn about the various buildings, activities, people, and vocabulary of manor life using an interactive website based on an actual primary source diary. Questions have headings to guide and focus the students' explorations. This activity utilizes Word so you can alter the pages to your students' specific needs. This assignment can be done in a computer lab
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5th - 10th
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Nervous System Webquest
Students can use this as a guide to complete a webquest on neurons and the nervous system. It includes links to several sites and has specific questions students must answer.
World Geography Web Quest
This web quest will lead students to several different websites to gather answers and information related to world geography. Students must define geography, human geography, & physical geography; take a quiz on the continents & oceans; determine why it is difficult to give an exact number of countries in the world; explain what is interesting about the earth's circumference; and answer several basic questions related to the world's current population, land sizes, landforms, climate, &am
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6th - 10th
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College and Career WebQuest
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
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6th - 12th
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Web Quest- Veteran's Day- Middle School/High School Computer Lab.
This is a web quest activity where the student will search the internet to answer questions about the history of Veteran's Day while also learning to copy and paste images into a table and embed hyperlinks in a picture. To make it fun, I give a prize to the first two students who email the completed web quest to me.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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7th - 9th
Invasive Species Webquest Easily Modified for Any State
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 .
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
, MS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-6
Mathematician Internet Scavenger Hunt
Includes:Detailed introduction directions (takes about 8 minutes) to get students started on assignmentStudent directions and worksheet to fill in answers on scavenger huntAddress to website to find everything on scavenger huntAnswer key
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5th - 9th
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Classification WebQuest
WebQuest to introduce Taxonomy and the seven layer classification system.
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6th - 12th
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FREE Earth Day Web Hunt
This is a FREE 16 question sheet about The History of Earth Day, The Impact Humans have on the Earth, and What Students can Do to help protect Earth's Natural Environment. The student sheet provides some suggestions for websites that would be helpful, and a thorough answer key is provided for you.
If you would like to present the material to your students, I have a 75 slide PowerPoint presentation that covers the information on this sheet AND MORE. It is fully animated with matching sounds ef
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5th - 10th
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Online Scavenger Hunt - Copyright/Fair Use Lesson
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!
The b
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6th - 12th
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Nutrition Activity: What's in your food?
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
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7th - 12th
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3 Branches of Government: Scavenger Hunt
This resource can be used in the digital or physical classroom. I have used it as an introduction/preview to the three branches of government. It can be done individually, in pairs, or in groups. The page numbers correlate with the IMPACT United States History & Geography textbook. The page numbers can be edited for your own textbook.For honors students: put the page numbers of the Constitution and have them read through the document to find the answers.For grade-level students: give them
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5th - 9th
Real News vs. Fake News
I created this assignment while teaching a unit on Media Literacy. Students discussed different types of media. This led to the lesson over media via television, print, radio, and online. Students discussed in small groups how they get their news, current affairs etc... They also discussed currently how a majority of people visit different social media outlets to receive information, and how the information that is circulated around the web is not always accurate and factual, but based on hearsa
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7th - 9th
The History of The Crucible: An Online Scavenger Hunt
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.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Webquest: Homer's Odyssey
This is a great introduction lesson for students before they read Homer's Odyssey. Building background knowledge is one of the keys to reading comprehension. When you have more knowledge to make connections to while you read, you are more likely to understand and remember that information you have read. This online activity will help students build their knowledge of Homer, literature terms, life in ancient Greece, and Greek mythology.
Uses the website: http://odyssey-webquest.weebly.com
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6th - 10th
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WebQuest: Exploring Constellations
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.
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6th - 12th
Lab #6: PhET Plate Tectonics
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
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Webquest on Elements and Compounds
A small webquest on elements and compounds that student can do when you need some extra time for grading or want to expand on.
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6th - 9th
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham WebQuest
Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham and need a way for your students to better understand the setting and history of the novel and incorporate technology? Check out this webquest!This webquest is laid out step-by-step so that students can go through it independently. It makes for a great activity after a quiz or independent reading when kids are finishing at different times. It has math, science, and history connections! **Note: One of the activities does have students watching a short video.
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5th - 8th
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Forces and Motion Webquest
Interactive webquest for your students to explore Newton's Laws of Motion. Students will use a mixture of reading comprehension, interactive simulations, 3D animations, and inquiry to learn about forces and motion. This was designed as a culminating, 8th grade webquest.
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6th - 8th
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Subject and Predicate Review Activties With Websites
This file contains numerous review resources for subject and predicates ranging from videos to watch, power points to view, pages to read, interactive quizzes to test skills, and a variety of games for practice.
A teacher could use these websites within a lesson plan as a resource, or a teacher could use this as a review resource after the skill has been covered.
This serves as a great file for differentiation. As a teacher you can assign specific kids specific websites where they need the m
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3rd - 8th
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Google Search Expert Worksheet - Internet Research
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.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Google Earth Activity: Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
In this activity students will explore the Earth and Mars and locate depositional features. This lesson takes roughly 80 minutes.
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8th - 12th
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Spanish American War Webquest
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.
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6th - 12th
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