Frog and Toad WebQuest
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Completing this WebQuest will help second grade students practice skills in the areas of Reading, Writing, and Science. Because there is a lot of reading and writing involved in this WebQuest, we recommend that an adult (i.e. parent, volunteer, para, or teacher) be nearby to assist students if they get stuck. Of course, this is always a good idea when young children are using the internet anyway!
Florida Sunshine State Standards covered in this WebQuest:
Reading:
Standard 1: The Student Uses the Reading Process Effectively
Benchmark A: The student predicts what a passage is about based on its title and illustrations.
A-1: Uses prior knowledge, illustrations, and text to make and confirm predictions
Benchmark C: Uses knowledge of appropriate grade-, age-, and developmental-level vocabulary in reading.
C-1: Identifies simple, multiple-meaning words.
C-5: Develops vocabulary by reading independently and listening to & discussing conceptually challenging selections.
C-6: Uses resources & references to build upon word meanings.
Benchmark D: Increases comprehension by rereading, retelling and discussion.
D-1: Uses a variety of strategies to comprehend text
Standard 2: The Student Constructs Meaning From a Wide Range of Text
Benchmark A: The student determines the main idea or essential message from text and identifies supporting information.
A-1: Summarizes information in texts.
A-2: Uses specific ideas, details, & information from text to answer literal questions.
A-3: Makes connections & inferences based on text & prior knowledge.
A-4: Understands similarities & differences across texts
Benchmark C: Student reads for information to use in performing a task & learning a new task
C-1: Reads informational texts for specific purposes.
Benchmark D: Knows strategies to use to discover whether information presented in a text is true, including asking others & checking another source.
D-1: Uses strategies to clarify the accuracy of a text.
Benchmark E: Uses simple materials of the reference system to obtain information.
E-1: Uses simple reference materials.
E-4: Generates questions about topics of personal interest
Writing:
Standard 1: The student Uses the Writing Process Effectively
Benchmark A: Makes a plan for writing that includes a central idea & related ideas.
A-1: Generates ideas before writing on self-selected topics and assigned tasks.
A-2: Makes a plan before writing the first draft.
A-3: Focuses on a central and group-related ideas.
Benchmark B: Drafts and revises simple sentences and passages, stories, letters & simple explanations.
B-3: Uses one or more paragraphs to focus on separate ideas & uses transition words where appropriate.
Standard 2: Writes to Communicate Ideas and Information Effectively
Benchmark C: Uses basic computer skills for writing.
C-1: Uses basic word processing skills and basic educational software for writing.
Science:
Standard 1: The student understands that all matter has observable, measurable properties.
Benchmark A: The student knows that objects can be described, classified, and compared by their composition (e.g., wood or metal) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, and shape).
A-1: Describes, classifies, and compares objects can be grouped according to similarities or differences of their physical characteristics.
Other useful websites:
Here are some other websites you might find useful if you enjoy using the internet in your classroom:
Printable Internet Scavenger Hunts by FactMonster and Education World
Webquest.org - the official site
Pete’s Power Points - educational power points on all sorts of subjects
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