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A WebQuest for 9th-12th Grade (Math, History, and Spanish) Designed by: Christy
Blankenship
Introduction
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Imagine what it is like to strike out on your own,
sailing with the fastest wind to the edge of the world, and adventuring
in strange lands where people live very different lives than your own.
Can you imagine the stories you would be able to share after such a trip?
What if you could talk to someone who had been on such an adventure? The
Spanish conquistadors of the 1500s went on many such adventures and their
stories are nothing less than fascinating. Along with your team, you will
use Internet resources to investigate the travels of a Spanish explorer
and organize a news report about him.
As a team, you will investigate the lives of early Spanish explorers and their methods of navigation by presenting a newscast of this time period. You will also demonstrate an understanding of their impact on the indiginous cultures that they "discovered."Each individual task will require you to use the Internet to find information and then use that information to complete each task. Each team will be assigned an explorer and complete the following tasks:
The class will be divided into eight groups. Each group will have an explorer to research and report on in the form of a newscast. Your teacher will assign your team a specific explorer before you begin. Click on the link that corresponds to your explorer below. This will take you to a site with specific links that will lead you to information on your explorer. 2. Next will be the weather/travel section of the
newscast. Here your team will need to make a map based on what you have
gathered from your research. It will show the locations and routes your
explorer traveled. If you cannot find an exact route on the Internet, use
your best judgment from the readings. Be sure to include a key to label
objects you wish to represent. Do this section in the same style that you
would see a weather report on the evening news. Discuss the climate in
the area and cultural factors found there such as information on the Natives
and their contact with the explorers. Go here for climate information:
Go here for maps of North, South, and Central America:
You will find all other information using the links to the explorers. 3. Finally, your team will create a commercial
advertising a navigational device known as a quadrant. Your team will learn
what this tool is and how it was used by going to the following site:
Then your team must make a quadrant using the instructions
provided here:
Once you know what a quadrant is and you have constructed it, make a commercial that advertises this product. Make sure to demonstrate how to use it and give information on why it is useful. Be creative in your attempt to convince the viewer that they need to buy a quadrant. 4. The final product will be a newscast production that your team will perform in class with the use the materials your team as created and any props you need. Use of electronic media (e.i. video/sound recordings, powerpoint, etc.) is strongly encouraged and will add to the creativity of your project. Click on your assigned explorer to research his life: Vasco
Nuñez de Balboa
Students will be evaluated based on the following
criteria.
![]() Conclusion Now that you
have completed this webquest, you should have an understanding of the lives
and travels of some prominant Spanish explorers during the Age of Exploration.
Have your thoughts changed about how the early explorers went about their
journeys? Would you have done something differently if you had been
in the position of any of these men? We must take into consideration
the past to better prepare ourselves for the future. You never know...
maybe one day you will be an explorer!
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