A WebQuest for 2nd Grade Science Class

Designed by

Noreen Hauer
www.noreenh49@yahoo.com

 

 

Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page


 

 

You are about to go on a great adventure today! I want you to pretend that you are a botanist scientist that studies plants and one day you woke up to find out that you were as small as a plant! Wow! Now you can learn even more about plants and see them better, because you are the same size as the plants!

You will work with 2 other students and do research, to find the answers to the following questions. Then make a Journal book of your life cycle as a plant growing up starting as a seed to a mature plant. Draw a picture of each stage of your life cycle development and also write a few sentences or a short paragraph about what is happening to you below each picture. Or, you could do a Picture storybook by drawing each stage of your growth as a plant with a picture.

You know what kind of foods and liquids you need to eat and drink to help you grow up into an adult, but now you are a plant! So, what will you need as a plant, to grow from a seed to a mature plant, like a child grows into an adult in human life?

 


 

 

You will be answering these questions by clicking on the icon and going to a website to get your answers. (Remember you are starting as a seed)

1.  What are your main parts?                         

                                                                                                  

2.  How would you describe yourself to me?      

3.  What do you need to survive?                      

4.  What would make you die?                         

5.  Who are some of your friends?                    

                                                                                                   

6.  Who are some of your enemies?                  

                                                                                                     

Then you will all gather your information together and draw your pictures and write what is happening to you under each picture for your Journal book. Or make a Picture storybook about each stage of your growth as a plant. There should be a page for each answered question.


To accomplish your task:

  1. First you have to choose 2 other plants (students) for your team.
  2. Then you will choose 2 questions each. Each of you will be responsible to research and answer your own questions. 
  3. To find your answers to these questions, you will go to the website, by clicking on the flower next to your question assigned to you.
    1. What are my main parts? (remember you start as a seed)                                           
    2. How would you describe yourself to me?
    3. What do you need to survive?
    4. What would make you die?
    5. Who are some of your friends?
    6. Who are some of your enemies?
    7. Each of you will answer this question: What have I become?
  4. Then you will all put your information together and draw pictures of what is happening to you in each stage (cycle) of your life as a plant; each cycle should be on a separate page in your Journal book and make sure to write what is happening to you in each cycle underneath your pictures. You can write it out as a story, or write each step of the plant’s cycle, under each picture. (Don’t forget to color your pictures)

Here are some questions to think about when you are researching your questions:

a)         When I describe myself as a plant, how many parts do I have?

b)         When I’m hungry, what would I eat or drink?

c)          What are the things that would hurt me?

d)         Who would want to hurt me?

e)         Who helps me grow?

f)           What is Photosynthesis?

Be sure to write all your information down on a separate sheet of paper before you draw your pictures. Then you can write your story under your pictures in your journal book.

***Don’t forget to make a cover page for your storybook with a title on it too. (You can draw a picture of you as a plant on the cover and you should color it with as many colors as you want, to make it look nice. Remember, this is like a story about you!)

 


Your performance will be evaluated by the completion of your book and how well you have answered all the questions. Also, if you have put all your drawings in the proper order of the growth cycle of the plant; from a seed to a mature plant. How much you participated and how well you worked with your team.

There will be a common grade for group work and also an individual grade for your own contributions and completion of the questions you were assigned to and participation in the presentation to the class.

 

 

Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Score

 

Knowledge of plant’s parts, needs and growth struggles. 

 By drawing 0-2 parts of the plant and labeling them. Naming 1 of the elements needed to grow. No mention of an enemy.

By drawing 3-4 parts of the plant and labeling them. Naming 2-3 of the elements needed to grow. Drawing 1 enemy.

By drawing 4-5 parts of the plant and labeling them. Naming 3-4 elements needed to grow. Drawing 3 enemies.

 

Completion of the assigned questions and understanding the project.

 

By completing 1of their questions, with some understanding  of the project.

By completing all questions, but not fully understanding the project.

By completing all questions with full understanding of the project.

 

How well the student worked with their team.

Not doing much to help others complete the task.

Worked well with the team, but could have helped more.

Worked well with the team and completed the task.

 

Creativity, completion and overall appearance of the book.

 

 

No creativity. Lacked needed information to complete the book.

Creativity was average, but book was completed. Appearance was average.

Creativity was great and appearance was neat and attractive. Book was completed and done well.

 

 

Participation in the presentation to the class.

Did not participate.

Participated, but didn’t speak the full time allowed for the presentation.

Participated with confidence and used all the time allowed for the presentation.

 


When you have completed this project, you will know all the parts of a plant and how they grow and what happens to plants through their journey from a seed to becoming a beautiful plant and who their enemies are.

*Now you can take that journey in a short video by clicking on this flower.

http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/grow.html

http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/parts.html

 

 

 


 

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