Bloom's taxonomy is learning stages model which provides three domains and each domain has 5-6 stpes. This learning model helps teachers and students to teach and learn.
Reviwing my webquest task comparing to Bloom's taxonomy, I found out what is lacking in my task.
My webquest task was about the UK, students are supposed to conduct researches on nation in the UK and make a presentaion in a group. In the process of this task, students can gain basic knowledge about the UK and understand the country. However, students will not be able to apply or analyze the information they get.
It would be more helpful for learners if teacher includes the process which requires learners to critically analyse and express their own opinions about the topic.
2. Individual and group work
Since my webquest is about making research and presentaion in a group, I think it is already a good assignment for group working purposes. Not only group work, the assignment asks each learner to think about the information they gained.
Here is my second version of webquest after I included things needed.
The United Kingdom
*Description*
Main idea is to give students chance to know about the country whose language is what they are learning.
Students get to know about the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland.
*Grade level*
High school students (15-18)
*Curriculum*
English/English culture
INTRODUCTION
Do you know how these buidings are called?
The UK is a country where English language originally comes from.
There are many famous people who were born in the UK
such as Shakespeare, Newton, the beatles and JK Rowling.
In this webquest, you can know more about the UK,
cities, reamarkable people, culture, buildings, and so on.
TASK
Your final assignment is to give 15-20 minutes presentation with a group.
As your topic, you choose one of the 4 nations in the UK which are,
England, Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland.
Follow the instructions below and make a good presentation!
PROCESS
1) Watch the video and learn about basic geographical information about the UK.
2) Decide which part of the UK you want to work on.
3) Find people who are interested in the same nation with you
and make a group of 4 people.
4) In the group, research about the nation
including these information below.
name
location
population
capital cities
remarkable people
landmark
5) Make a presentation based on what you found.
Use many pictures in powerpoint!
6) After listening to other presentations,
compare which nation is the biggest or smallest,
well-develoed or less developed,
where you would like to go for what purpose
and share your pinions in a group!
EVALUATION
Teacher will evaluate each group
which means that members of a group get the same score.
You really have to work hard together with group!
There are the criterias of evaluation.
Content - quality and quantity of information given in the presentation
Powerpoint presentation - wether it's easy to understand and well organized
Group work - if each of group member gets the same chance to talk and express
Language - if you use proper language in appropreate situation
CONCLUSION
Now, you must have learnt a little bit more about the United Kingdom.
Does this project make you want to travel to the UK?
Things you learned will be very useful when you actually go there.
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