Splash!

Here's a webquest that I made for use in school with my 4th year primary class. They loved it.

We did the webquest over 3 classes in the school computer lab. The children were divided into groups of 3 students. Each student has a separate but complementary role and they have to use various resources on the "Riverquest" to find information and then prepare a report copying pictures from the varios pages and writing a short text. I used some videos I found on youtube, a couple of nice fun pictures and a cmap I created about rives in Spain. While the kids were working, I went round the class checking to see everyone was working well together and cooperating.



If you click the image, it will take you to the webquest. Feel free to use it with your classes.

Lifeboats and Icy Sea

Although this class actually works better in ESO, we can ask high level students to watch the video and then give their opinions about people who work at sea, using some of the words that appear in the word cloud. This is basically a speaking activity that allows the teacher to help with pronunciation.

It can be done in an even simpler way where the students have to describe what they say and say how it would feel to be in any of the boats in the video. A new word cloud can be created with key vocabulary that has been brainstormed.

This new word cloud can then be the basis for writing work where the students have to use at least 50% of the words to write a short text summarising the class discussion (guidelines for the written text: min 75 words, max 250 depending on student ability).