Site: |
When I Grow Up Webquest |
Address / Date of Site: |
http://whenigrowup1.homestead.com/title.html June 6, 2003 |
Author: |
Not stated anywhere on the site! |
Description: |
This is a webquest designed to encourage high school students to focus in on a career interest. |
Grade Levels |
9 -12 |
Subject Areas |
Business and Career |
Standards Supported |
Writing, Research, Technology, Computer Applications |
Features and Components: |
Asks students to think about pertinent issues in searching for a successful career. Information must be gathered, and resume polished. |
What Makes it Good? |
• Facilitation - Students guide themselves through the quest • Differentiation - Each student focuses in on their area of interest • Relevance - Resumes are necessary for scholarships, and jobs. Good quality resumes are rare among high school students. • ^Thinking Skills - Students must reason and choose what is relevent to them in their search for an appropriate career • Active Participation - In the PowerPoint Presentation they create, there is a lot of relevent information that needs to be individually researched. • Real World - These are real statistics and information that the students are gathering about possibilities for their own futures. • Subject Knowledge - Detail about a students personal interests is gained. • Assessment - The rubric is included |
Specific Applications: |
Computer Applications, Introduction to Business, Corporate Academy, Business Technologies, Marketing,... |