LHMS Web Quest

By Zach Sirera and Patrick Parke

LHMS Site Directory


Topic:
Ocean Explorers


Introduction:

We are doing this web quest on ocean explorers and there expeditions. In this web quest
you are required to do a test of twenty questions, a Venn Diagram, and a three paragraph report on what you learned.


Tasks:

1. Complete a 20 question review of websites.
2. Do a 3 paragraph report.
3. Do a Venn diagram on the submersible and bathyscaphe.
4. Do a clay model of a bathysphere.

Grading key
For each of the 20 questions you get correct you will get 5 points.

A=100-91
B=90-81
C=80-71
D=70-61
F=60-0


Process:

Task 1: Use the resources to answer the following questions.

Questions:

1. About how often do scientists dive to the bottom of the ocean?
2. Where was Jacques Cousteau born?
3. What year did Jacques Cousteau die?
4. Who was the person who first developed the aqua-lung?
5. In what year did Jacques Cousteau join the French Naval?
6. What was the first bathysphere made of?
7. Who developed the first bathysphere?
8. What is the Alvin submersible operated by?
9. What is the Nautile operated by?
10. When were the MIR1 and MIR2 built?
11. In what year did Edward Forbes propose that no life form on live below 300 xxxxfathoms?
12. On what country did fisherman pull up a fish that was identified as coelacanth?
13. How much did the first bathysphere weigh?
14. Who made the first bathyscaphe?
15. What does bathysphere mean in Greek mean?
16. What was the first Deep Flight prototype shaped like?
17. Why is William Beebe so famous?
18. William Beebe grew up as a what?
19. How many kids were in William Beebe's family?
20. William Beebe grew up as a what?

Task 2: Write a three paragraph report that shows what you have learned. It must have 150 words or more. Each paragraph must include the answers to two questions from our test.

Task 3: Make a Venn diagram of the bathyscaphe and the submersible that has 5 comparisons and 10 differences.

Task 4: Make a clay model of a bathyscaphe that is 5 inches long and 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide.


Evaluation:

20 points for grammar
2 points for every question answered right
20 points for complete sentences
20 points for a good Venn diagram



Resources:

http://www.diveanddiscover.whoi.edu/about.html
www.incwell.com/biography/cousteau.htm
http://www.cousteausociety.org/tcs-people.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/frontier/deepsea.html
http://members.aol.com/chines6930/mw1/bio.htm


Games:

Jigsaw Puzzle

Jumbled Words Puzzle

Hangman Puzzle




Conclusion:

In this web quest you should have learned a lot about ocean explorers and there explorations. You should have played our awesome games and built a clay model.