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Greek Mythology Tabloid
This WebQuest is a good example of the creative product type. Not only does it have a very creative task and process, it also allows students to make a very creative product. It seems like a successful example that students will have fun with and enjoy doing. Although the background was lacking, the meat of the WebQuest was great, and so I think that it can be useful for teachers.
9. TheThe Victims of
The students are asked to commemorate a group that was persecuted in the Holocaust. The activity is to create a memorial for them. The actual product is really creative and interesting, however the WebQuest could use some spicing up.
10. TheThe Berlin Wall
Students are instructed to create a newspaper article based on "interviews" and primary sources.
11. Personal Journal of Gettysburg
This WebQuest has a task the is very creative and allows the students to use their own creativity. The task gives students a lot of opinions of where to take this task, and allows the students to give a little part of their personal opinion to the task.
12. Weetzie Bat: The TV Series Webquest
Done by a former Practicum student, this WebQuest is a perfect example of taking an English unit (reading Weetzie Bat) and transforming it into a creative project (that of creating their own pilot television show). This WebQuest is extremely strong in all areas.
13. Rewriting Romeo and Juilet
This WebQuest asks students to rewrite a scene from a prepared list and transform the scene into the same story, but in a different time period. While the layout may be a bit bland, the process is straight forward, clear, and easy to follow. It contains a wealth of information that students can use to research their time period and help them understand how to translate Shakespeare into the Wild Wild West.
13.creativecreative problem solving
This WebQuest is looking at a way to solve problems creativly. It also uses some historical context to get students interested in the project. Students are asked to solve a problem by helping the Alexander the Great of Macedonia.

[1] http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html
Examples of a WebQuest in Which Participants Take on the Role of Creating a Product
1. Bridge to Terabithia Webquest
This WebQuest provides a good example of how to make a creative and interesting product to get the students excited in the project. It also subtly helps to teach healthy relationships to young students.
2. TimeTime Before Time
This WebQuest offers a good example of how to present a task to students. The creator never broke the students characters with "teacher talk," which allows students to become invested in the end product. The WebQuest itself is also a good product. The site is engaging and pulls students in with dinosaur sound effects and moving pictures.
3. AncientAncient Aztec WebQuest
This WebQuest really taps into the creative sides of the students by having them create their own Aztec exhibits complete with artifacts. Though this does not necessarily have the structure of a traditional WebQuest, it contains a lot of great information that the student should learn about. It even incorporated the different multiple intelligences in the WebQuest as a way to make them aware that they should be incorporated in the product.
4. DiscoverDiscover the Ancient
The task portion of this WebQuest is very well written. This WebQuest really asks students to get involved with their characters in order to create the best possible product. Each student can choose one of three roles, and depending on their role they get to create any kind of presentation they want using photos, information, personal journals and artifacts from the era.
5.Civil War Webquest: A Nation Divided
This WebQuest allows the student to explore events of the American Civil War through extensive letter writing. It allows students to assume the role of someone whose friends are on the opposing side of the nation during the war, and through letters the students demonstrate their knowledge of particular events and mindsets.
6. MusicMusic Theme Park
This WebQuest asks the students to design a theme park around different styles of music. This could be a hokey but the boundaries that are set around each aspect those that may get off task. They are asked to design down to the uniforms of the restaurant employees!! The students can go wild- within the limitations and there are innumerable opportunities for them to be creative as well as historically accurate.
7. PoetryPoetry of War
This WebQuest is a good example of the creative product type. Everything is tied together and the product is not only appropriate for the students, but it also allows students to get involved with the product and the poetry that they are learning about. In this way, the teacher has made it much more fun and exciting to learn about the "Poetry of War."
8. GreekGreek Mythology Tabloid
This WebQuest is a good example of the creative product type. Not only does it have a very creative task and process, it also allows students to make a very creative product. It seems like a successful example that students will have fun with and enjoy doing. Although the background was lacking, the meat of the WebQuest was great, and so I think that it can be useful for teachers.
9. The Victims of the Holocaust

[1] http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html
Examples of a WebQuest in Which Participants Take on the Role of Being a Designer
1. PlanningPlanning a Garden
This WebQuest takes information the students have already covered (in this case, the study of plants) to design a functioning garden for the school. They need to submit different sections as proposals, and need to take into consideration design, function, cost, and care after school and during summers. Very interesting.
2. AA Quest for
This WebQuest asks the students to assume roles of leaders of both Israel and Palestine. Using their knowledge according to their newly assumed position, the students are to prepare a speech on peace to give at the Peace Summit. They must come up with a resolution that benefits all parties and present that plan at this meeting. I really liked this task (even though it could have been played up a little more) because it has a good lay out. The students goals are clear and although they have limitations, they have plenty of opportunity to think outside the box.
3. Geometry
This WebQuest is perfectly done, clearly defining each step of what needs to be done. This WebQuest is about creating a new monument in the United States using the ideas already used by the government in order to build the best monument possible. The WebQuest has a great example of process, task, and evaluation.
4. TheThe Crossroads of
This WebQuest instructs students to research and design a Civil War memorial that encapsulates a major theme in the War as well as finding a common ground between the North and the South.
5. TrilingualTrilingual Packaging Dilemma
This WebQuest requires students to use research about marketing techniques and knowledge of different types of triangles to build a packaging box for the new geometry game, Trilingual. This is a good example of design, as the students are limited in the kinds of materials and shapes they can use, but must still create an appealing project that is feasible in the market.
6. CoquinariaCoquinaria Romana
This WebQuest requires students to be creative in designing menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, they must first do research on different Roman customs and recipes to come up with the best meal plan. Great example of an awesome process. This is also a good example of a design WebQuest.
7. UsingUsing Area and
This WebQuest gives students the opportunity to learn about perimeter and area, while creating a floor plan of a fun house. They have a chance to practice area and perimeter concepts on the computer, measurement at home, and drawing and creating to apply the knowledge they have learned. They have a checklist to follow so they can self-assess before turning it in.

This WebQuest is a great way for students to experiment with journalism, in a historical context!
Great Gatsby WebQuest
the era in which The Great takes place.
Samurai WebQuest
This WebQuest allows you to study the samurai and investigate puzzles and meanings.
The Crucible WebQuest
This WebQuest is a powerful one that asks students to become journalists and research incidents of mass hysteria. Students have a few great tasks to complete, and have the opportunity to see how mass hysteria is relevant throughout history and even today.
Let Me See a Piece of Greece WebQuest
Students are given the role of a person who has been separated from their family while on a trip in Greece. Students must keep a journal of their travels and adventures while away from their parents, as well as write about the country's culture and share it with the class.
Heroes Among Us WebQuest
We live in a post-9/11 world where many people search long and hard to find examples of heroes. This WebQuest has students interview "heroes" that are part of their families or living in their neighborhoods. It gets students thinking and proves that ordinary people can do some great things.
Lily's Crossing
This WebQuest is a good example for how a WebQuest should be set up. It is about a set journal entries that must be completed along the lines of the setting of the book "Lily's Crossing".
Civil War- "A Nation Divided."
This WebQuest places two friends on separate sides of the Civil War. The object, however, is for them to stay informed by writing (journaling) about a specific battle. It offers different perspectives on one battle. While you are only being a journalist for one side you are working with the opposite side.
Blogs&Journalism
This WebQuest is meant to determine whether blogs count as active journalism. The task is focused around reading various blogs and newspapers to find one's own definition as to what journalism is.

Computer Science Project Research and Development WebQuest
This WebQuest allows the students to take on rolls of project leaders in a programming company. The point is to introduce the students to new language and terminology.
Youth Gang Violence: An Exploration
This WebQuest allows students to gain real-world perspective on an intensely challenging issue by taking the role of a journalist.
Journey of the Journalist
This WebQuest allows students to study the role of the journalist, by becoming a journalist.
The Grapes of Wrath WebQuest
This is not strictly a journalistic task, but it is one of the many tasks that this WebQuest has to offer.
This WebQuest places two friends on separate sides of the Civil War. The object, however, is for them to stay informed by writing (journaling) about a specific battle. It offers different perspectives on one battle. While you are only being a journalist for one side you are working with the opposite side.
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OETZI the Iceman
This WebQuest puts the students in a chosen role giving a press conference on the discovery of a man found frozen in a glacier for thousands of years. Much research has been done to tease out the secrets of his life and death. The task is to research the story and compile the information and present it as if you were the police officer, scientist, park ranger, government official, etc. and be prepared to answer question from the reporters.

[1] http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html
Examples of a WebQuest In Which Participants Take on a Role to Solve a Mystery
1. King Tutankhamun:
Was it a Murder? This WebQuest is very clear in instruction, as well as allowing students to explore on their own. It informs students about a very interesting and historic mystery.
2. Mystery Bug
This WebQuest gives students a mystery bug that has been found in the rain forest, and asks students to research the bug. They have to find out what the physical characteristics are; research the bug's habitat, diet, and life style; and determine if they are harmful or helpful for humans. (It's a pretty good WebQuest except that it repeats what the students have to find three times just within the process.)
3.2. Disappearing Frogs
This WebQuest lets students evaluate why frogs are disappearing in North America. The WebQuest allows students to take on different roles in order to research this topic and come up with a good explanation.
4.3. Bones and
Students are given the role of a forensic investigator and must analyze the evidence from a crime scene to solve the crime. Students must present their information and findings to other experts in their field and explain what actually happened at the scene based on the evidence given. The site also gives extra resources for those who are interested in the criminal justice field.
5.4. The Case
Students are given the role of a detective sent undercover to write a mystery story because all of the mystery stories were destroyed by an evil-doer. The WebQuest allows students to explore writing the mystery genre.
6.5. It's a
This WebQuest allows students to read about and write their own mystery texts. The Detection Agency has hired the students to add their books to the Mystery Book Library because the original library has burned down.
7.6. DNA's Role
In this WebQuest students will have to use what they know about genetics and DNA in order to determine which kidnapped infant belongs to which parent.
8. Shipwreck Island Adventure
In this WebQuest, students are welcomed with the "biggest research opportunity of [their] career(s)," when a message is found in a bottle. Students will need to discover information in the webquest leads to specific botany, geography, meterorology, and zoology that will reveal where the "mysterious explorer may have been shipwrecked. "
9.WhoDunit?7. WhoDunit?
This is a WebQuest designed for a 6th grade Language Arts class. Students are given clues, and must try to solve the case and write a persuasive arguement based on research to prove your solution to other detectives.
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Examples of a Webquest with a Role where Participants Compile Information
1. Seeking the Nightingale
extremely confusing. It's not really a WebQuest! The quick
2. A Look Into My Future
This WebQuest takes what students already know about themselves and their education to apply it to creating an educational outline for their future. The process has good graphics and details as far as how to use a specific program to complete the task.

6) Montana: Stories and Legends of Native Tribe
This WebQuest has students assume the role of a person living in Montana in the year 1800. From the perspective of characters such as a tribal chief, young child, etc, they must tell a story through a journal based on their daily experiences.
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This WebQuest asks students to explore the resources provided about Cherokee, Japanese, and African-American people during their times of struggle. The task is to research, provide journal entries, write a letter to the President, a letter to the editor, and write a poem all appropriate to these groups of people.