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teacherAudio and video can be integrated into activities across the curriculum. Why reinvent the wheel? You can find lots of units, lessons, and webquests on the Internet to explore and adapt.

WebQuests provide an authentic, technology-rich environment for problem solving, information processing, and collaboration. This inquiry-based approach to learning involves students in a wide range of activities that make good use of Internet-based resources. Bernie Dodge developed the WebQuest concept back in the mid 1990s.

To learn more, check out Bernie Dodge's WebQuest site at San Diego State University. You can also go to Locating and Evaluating WebQuests at eduScapes Teacher Tap for lots of resource links.

Collections of Activities and Lesson Plans for Video in the Classroom

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Videos in WebQuests

You can find many more lessons and webquests by doing a Google search for phrases such as Sarah Plain and Tall movie webquest or science fiction film webquest.

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High School

Videos in Lesson Plans

You can find many more lessons and webquests by doing a Google search for phrases such as Of Mice and Men movie lesson, or Antz guide.

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Video Clips in WebQuests and Lesson Plans

You can find many more lessons and webquests by doing a Google search for phrases such as biology video clip lesson, or history video clip webquest.

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High School

Music and other Audio in WebQuests and Lesson Plans

You can find many more lessons and webquests by doing a Google search for phrases such as civil war music webquest, popular music lesson, or country music webquest.

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Explore the following 42explore projects from eduScapes for ideas, lessons, and webquests:

Literature-based WebQuest

The following webquests are based on books, but could be adapted for use with the video-based on the book. You can find many more lessons and webquests by doing a Google search for phrases such as Harry Potter webquest, or Tuck Everlasting lesson.

Primary (K-2) Literature-based WebQuests
Arthur's Tooth by Marc Brown - grade 1
Arthur's dentist, Dr. Sozio, wants your class to make posters for his office to help Arthur understand his teeth better.
Henkes - Chrysanthemum: What's in a Name (Kevin Henkes) - primary grades
Read books by Kevin Henkes and create a "book about me".
 
Intermediate (3-5) Literature-based WebQuests
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - grade 3-5
Read the book and invent a candy, learn about the history and origin of chocolate, and create a board game. - grade 3-5
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Castle Caper - look for a good movie location
A Day in the Life of Harry Potter
Harry Potter WebQuest - Keep Harry Potter in the library
Learning Setting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Wizards of the Old North States
Little House on the Prairie - Explore the Places the  Ingalls Lived - grades 4-6 (Another Little House WebQuest)
Persuade people that they should build a museum about Laura Ingalls Wilder in "your state".
The Lorax - The Grickle-Grass Gazette - grades 3-5
Read the book "The Lorax". Help the ecological newspaper by creating a page for its new issue.
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman - Twister Times for Kids by Larissa Rufener - grade 5
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - grades 3-5
Focus on the setting in Japan (compared to US), time period of WWI, and art of origami.
Sarah Plain and Tall - Mainly Maine - grades 3-5
Read Sarah, Plain and Tall. Decide to create a brochure with words and pictures to help your family understand the true beauty of Maine.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Explore the setting of the book.
Wizard of Oz - Over the Rainbow and Beyond - grade 3
You are a Munchkin living in Munchkinland. The Mayor of the Munchkin City chooses you and some of your friends to investigate what life is like in Kansas including tornadoes, rainbows, flying balloons, castles, emeralds and other strange things.
 
Middle School WebQuests
Dahl - The Fantasy of Roald Dahl - grades 6-8
Analyze and evaluate the information you have discovered through the novel.
Into Thin Air - grades 6-8
You are part of a team consisting of an Environmentalist, Adventurist and Biologist. You have been commissioned to look into the events that led up to the tragedy on May 10, 1996 and come up with strategies that would possibly prevent such a tragedy in the future.
Outsiders: Teens & Life Choices - grades 6-8
The feud between the Greasers and Socs must end! You have been selected to represent either the Socs or the Greasers at a summer camp. Help these gangs from The Outsiders to resolve their differences and develop a plan for the future.
To Kill a Mockingbird - grades 6-8 (Others: The Mockingbird Sings and To Kill a Mockingbird: Growing up in the 1930s)
Activities related to the novel.

 
High School WebQuests
Crucible & McCarthyism
Compare "The Crucible" to the political happenings of McCarthyism during the 1950's.
Fahrenheit 451 WebQuest - Book Burning: It's Not Just Science Fiction - grade 9
Learn about the past, present, and future censorship while reading Fahrenheit 451.
Little Women - The Culture of War: A Closer Look at Women During the Time of Louise May Alcott's Little Women - high school
Learn about life and culture in preCivil War times.
Lost Horizon - Searching for Lost Horizon - 9th grade
Your job is to map your journey and write what you discover on your journey to Shangri-La.
Odyssey - high school
Create an amusement park based on the Odyssey.
Odyssey WebQuest - high school
Answer questions about the book and do a presentation
Odyssey - As Mt. Olympus Turns... WebQuest
Examine the stories and characters of Greek mythology and create a modern soap opera
Odyssey - Homer's Odyssey: A Guide to Understanding the Voyage of Odysseus Through a Study of Greek Mythology
Acting as classroom historians, explore the world of Ancient Greece, its cultures, geography and myths.
Of Mice and Men, Migrant News: An Inquiry-based Newspaper Project - high school
Create a newspaper based on the time period.
Of Mice and Men - Putting George on Trial: Taking Of Mice and Men into the Courtroom - grade 9
You are a participant in the trial of The People of the State of California v. George Milton. You will be a judge, lawyer, juror, bailiff, court reporter, defendant, or witness.
Pride and Prejudice - Literary WebQuest: Pride and Prejudice, the Sequel - high school
It's 1816, Jane Austin is ill and can't write. Your job is to write the first chapter of the sequence to Pride and Prejudice
Romeo & Juliet WebQuest - high school (Another Romeo & Juliet: A Quest Upon the Web)
Take on the role of the tragedian, romantic, director or actor.
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Explore the historical background to the novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Create a class production of Boo Radley's trial which will be presented to other freshman classes.
 
trySelect and evaluate a webquest or lesson. Discuss how it could be updated and adapted for classroom use. Or, discuss how you would adapt a lesson designed for use with a book for use with a video.