At first, I thought that WebQuests were a good tool to use in the classroom. Now, because of what I have learned about WebQuests during this week, I think they are one the best web 2.0 tools a teacher can use in the classroom. The WebQuest I found for our today’s activity allows students to work in groups and learn about basic geometric shapes and their real world applications. In this site, the project is to look around our world for geometrical shapes; that is, students will look for examples of Geometry in nature, art, architecture, and fashion. The site provides students with a list of websites where they will search for the figures and asks them to write down the name of each shape, number of dimensions, where it is found, and how it was used. Then, the students will search the internet for more examples of geometric shapes, which appear in other areas of our life such as sports, science, and transportation. Finally, the students will present their findings using Power point. A WebQuest like this would allow my students to explore the nature of basic geometric shapes and their real world applications, which students miss most of the time. Moreover, I could use this WebQuest for almost any geometry course, up to high school level, to make the learning of geometric shapes fun and efficient. I could also use this WebQuest in other math courses to expose students to some of the applications of mathematics in the real world.
I’m definitely going to use Webquests as one of my teaching tools, in and outside the classroom. Moreover, I already have some great ideas to create some of the best math WebQuests ever!!! The WebQuest I used for our activity in our today’s class, “The Shapes in our Lives”, and other WebQuest I found about Pythagoras and the Pythagoras Theorem inspired me to create and use WebQuests in my future classroom. I believe that a great part of mathematics can be learned in a fun way; so, I’m always looking for tools to teach mathematics in ways that students like learning this subject. In this way, WebQuests will be one of these tools. Now, I, myself, enjoy learning trough WebQuests. For example, this was the case in our WebQuest about WebQuest activity.
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