WebQuests

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Vacation in space. Create a commercial to convince vacations to vacation on your planet.
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This specific webquest was designed to inform students about the life, success, talent and achievements of one of America's greatest inventors; Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Edison was a scientist/inventor with over 1000 patents for his marvelous technological inventions. Without his discoveries, who knows where our world would be today. Students will utilize this webquest to expand their knowledge of the contributions and inventions that this man has provided to improve the quality of life for the human race.
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 __**Health/PE**__ [|**http://teacherweb.com/IN/PNC/SBriggsWebQuest/**]  All of the copies of the food pyramid have vanished. None of the adults can remember what foods and how much of them to have you eat each day to stay healthy. The United States Department of Agriculture needs your help in making a new food guide so people can eat right and stay healthy. It's all up to you to make the new food guide. You must remember that you have to make sure your new food guide promotes healthy eating habits. The United States Department of Agriculture is counting on you to inform the people how to eat healthy.
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 * In all different parts of the world, there are people who go to beaches to look through seaweed, sand, shells, trash, and anything else that washes up on the beach in search of one item, a sea-bean. There is even an event every year dedicated to sea-beans called the International Sea-Bean Symposium and Beachcomber's Festival. This year, the workers at the festival have chosen you to be a helper. Helpers need to be able to tell people that go to the festival about different types of sea-beans. **

You and your twin are planning to attend the annual [|//“Twins Days”// Festival] in [|Twinsburg, Ohio]; which takes place each year during the first weekend of August. When you arrive, you are asked to check in at the registration area, according to your specific type of twinship. The problem is that you and your twin have never positively determined your zygosity by having a DNA test, so you must rely on the details of your birth and other physical traits to correctly choose a twin classification. While you are trying to determine which category to enter, you meet other pairs of twins with the same dilemma and decide to work together to solve the mysteries of each set of womb-mates.
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Bullying is a problem that knows no boundaries. From schoolyards to computer chatrooms, young people deal with a wide variety of bullying situations. What can be done? Your class has been asked to learn about bullying both in the past, and in the present, and to create a one minute public service announcement that can help to reduce the incidence of bullying in your community.
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[|**http://questgarden.com/38/19/2/061219141443/**] The African country of Mali is the home of the Bamana people. Theirs is a culture steeping in traditions that have been passed from one generation to the next for hundreds of years. Come and join this web quest to learn about these extraordinary people. When you are done, you will have created your own design for a Bogolanfini Mud Cloth. So flex those fingers, roll up your sleeves, put some newspaper down on the table and let’s go!
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[|**http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/espinoza/projects/557-044/gunnels/wq.html**] Cinco de Mayo is the 5th of May. This is a day for Latino people to celebrate their culture. Our class has been chosen to host a Cinco de Mayo celebration for a famous Latino person who will not be able to go home to Mexico for the celebration. Your job is to plan an afternoon celebration complete with a fiesta, pinatas, music, games, and a parade for the whole school to enjoy.

It is 1897 and your family and you have recently left Skagway, Alaska. You are headed to Dawson City in the hopes of striking it rich with gold, like those three sourdoughs did at Rabbit Creek last year. Your idea is to create prototypes to 1) save you time along the way and 2) speed up the mining process. You will scale your prototypes to fit these new-fangled, long-legged dolls they have created. (Built to action figure, Barbie Doll size.)
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Our school bands and orchestras are teaming with a record number of exceptional players this year! Sources close to the music department have reported that some of these motivated music makes have threatened to give up their instruments if additional performance opportunities are not soon added to their already busy schedules. To find out what YOU can do to help avoid this drastic situation, began the TASK.
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<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; color: #666666; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[|**http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/x/jxz8/Student_Webquests/Oswald/WebFiles/webqu.html**]<span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif';"> Yesterday I was called to the office to pick up a letter that had been sent to me by registered mail. When I opened the letter and read what was inside, I was very surprised by what I had just read. Mr. Robert Hunt, the mayor of our fine city, wrote to ask us to do a favor for him! This letter has only been sent to us, so we need to carefully consider his offer and decide if we want to help him out. Click on the mailbox to see what he has to say…