Website Evaluation #3 webquest

Software/Website Title: WEB QUEST- ANIMALS ON THE OCEAN FLOOR

Website URL: http://education.nmsu.edu/webquest/wq/ocean/index.html

Grade/Age Level: 3rd-5th grade

Language & Content:

This webquest is to help students learn and explore what animals might be on the ocean floor. It provides several animals with pictures and or links along with a description of that animal. It has the students answer questions about that animal and it tells them to draw a specific thing about that animal as well. That is supposed to go on a specific page of that journal so the teacher knows what animal they are should be drawing and writing information about.

There are several weaknesses of this site. One is the external documents it provides. It just lists them; it doesn’t really tell you what they are or how to find them. I think if I were the student I’d be really confused by that. Also I feel like the tasks in this webquest could be a little more in-depth. All it wants the students to do is draw and add pictures to their journal along with answering a few simple questions. Also I think that they could add more pages or more assignments to make it a better webquest. It mentions a grading chart in the evaluation that I can’t find anywhere in the website. The title of this webquest is “Animals on the Ocean Floor” and to me that provides wrong information. I don’t consider whales and jellyfish to be animals that live on the ocean floor unless for this webquest they are considering the whole ocean the ocean floor.

The strength is that it does connect to another page, and it provides pictures and/or a link to go along with some questions. It also follows a pretty simple format that the students should easily be able to follow.