Mahopa WebQuest Project
by Mr. Angeli and Miss Neuenschwander
Fifth Grade Team at Gillett Elementary School
Gillett, WI (The Lighthouse District)
Introduction
You are a janitor at a local public museum. You accidentally have cleaned and broken most of the displays of the Native American Culture Exhibit. It is 2:00 AM, and your supervisor will be coming in to work at 9:00 in the morning. With your seven hours, you decide to go to the Time Travel Exhibit and use the actual-working time machine to go back in time and recover all of the information you destroyed.
Task
You have accidentally destroyed five of the cultural componants of the exhibit. You must recover information on the following culture areas: Shelter; Foodstuff; Clothing; Traditions; and Arts. You must find pictures and information, place them within a Microsoft Word document including a full report with graphics inserted. By pure coincidence, the project you destroyed happened to be the same tribal group that you happen to be in for your Mahopa groups! Isn't that a wonderful chance happening???
Process
Use this webquest to find various websites that will provide you with the information and media you need to complete a six page Word document that will be written using a provided rubric. Each will have a self-written paragraph detailing the part of culture needed and incorperate a graphic with caption within it.
If you do not find all of your information by the time your supervisor comes in, you will have to deal with him, and you will quite possibly lose this wonderful job. This would make you sad.
Resources
What are you waiting for?? You only have seven hours! Get your group of fellow custodial engineers organized and find that time machine!!!
If you cannot find information on certain areas of the culture using this webquest, use the other media, such as resource books, encyclopedias, and specialty books listed on each tribe's webquest page.
Assessment/Evaluation
How do you do? Hey! Go check out the rubric!
