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STUDENT'S
NAMES: Fiona Devenney, Louise Ganly
CLASS FOR
WHICH WEBQUEST IS INTENDED:
DURATION
OF PROJECT FOR STUDENTS:
OBJECTIVES
OF WEBQUEST:
In the Maths
section the children will use the fun and magic of Harry Potter to explore
activities involving currency, addition, subtraction and other basic operations.
Harry Potter
is such an imaginative creation and provides endless scope for the children
to get into artistic mode. A variety of activities will be used to develop each child's creative side.
INTENDED
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:
We
envisage that this webquest would be suitable for a fourth class. However
before completing this webquest is attempted it would be helpful if the
class had read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, if not more of
the books in the saga by J.K. Rowling. A lot of the webquest's content
is based on this presumption.
This webquest
will take a total of four weeks for each to complete. This will give each
student the opportunity to visit each four houses and complete all of the
tasks associated with each.
The webquest
covers three subject areas of the curriculum:
In the English
activities the children are encouraged to explore their creative side through
creative writing. This area also enhances their reading potential as reading
activities are also carried out. Harry Potter is a literary phenomenon
and the learning opportunities that accompany it should not go unnoticed.
The computer
provides endless scope for exploration and discovery in the class room.
Through the use of this tool and J.K. Rowling's masterpiece endless learning
opportunities are presented to teachers and children alike. In this webquest
the children practice their typing skills through the English activity.
The web is used in a discovery on birds thus develooing the children's
research skills. The children will receive the benefits of the most technologically
advanced learning tool together with the advantages that exploring one
of the world's best examples of children's literature.
