Dear Principal Hiccup,
I have just discovered a tool of webquest on line. It is a tool on the web (the one I saw an example of was questgarden.com). This area on line had posts that has class lessons up or we, as teacher, can post our lessons plans for our classes. These can be collaborations that can go on for days or just a little individual blurb that one of my students could do on their own. Each one taking the time allotted that they need.
What I like most about the idea of webquests is that we can collaborate across the curriculum. If I am studying a story that entails World War II stories then I could get on line and look up the American aspect of the Japanese in the entournment camps. This is an interesting perspective that is often not told. The webquests are a plethora of knowledge waiting to be unearthed and utilized. When we do this we seek to prove to our students that the lessons we teach them are cross disciplinary. We seek to do this all of the time. Here is a tool to help.
Thank you for your interest and feel free to ask me any questions. I'm excited to begin implementing these plans.
Ms. D. L. Kleckner