UniServe Science

Web-based Resources for Stage 4 & 5

Kaye Placing (UniServe Science, University of Sydney)

Teaching Science for Deeper Meaning, March 2008

To check if an appropriate WebQuest exists:

• WebQuests.org - from Bernie Dodge
• Best Web Quests - from Tom March
• Web Quest Direct - Australian site
• WebQuests developed by UniServe Science - includes Indigenous Garden, Biodiversity, Plate Tectonics, Extinction of the Megafauna and the Science of Bushfires
• WebSheets developed by UniServe Science - includes Science Mystery, Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
• Filamentality

To create WebQuests:

• Web Quest Direct - Australian site
• Filamentality

To create EarthQuests/Virtual Field trips

• Google Earth
• Earth Quests
• Back of my hand uses Microsoft Virtual Earth

To create Timelines:

• The Timeline Tool
• Timeline Creator

To create other resources:

• WebTools for Science Teachers - tutorial on web-based teacher productivity tools
• Hot Potatoes
• Question Tools
• Quia
• Quandary

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Resources to Create a WebQuest on Energy

Scenario:

Your organisation has been employed by a government body to look at alternatives to using the local diminishing coal reserves for the production of electricity. A number of alternatives have been suggested but you need to compare the alternatives and make recommendations to the government body.

The task:

1. You could divide your class into groups to investigate one of the alternatives, and bring them together to debate the value of their particular energy source; or
2. You could divide the class into groups and assign each members of the group a role such as environmentalist, ecologist, economist

Wind Energy:

1. Wind Energy - from KidCyber
2. Wind Energy - from Power for a Sustainable Future
3. Wind Energy: Myths and Facts - from Sustainability Victoria
4. How Wind Energy Works - from Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar Energy:

1. Solar Energy - from Power for a Sustainable Future
2. How Solar Energy Works - from Union of Concerned Scientists
3. Solar energy - from Energy Australia

Biomass Energy:

1. Bioenergy Resource in Victoria - from Sustainability Victoria
2. Biomass Energy - from Power for a Sustainable Future
3. Biomass – the growing energy resource - from Nova, Australian Academy of Science
4. How Biomass Energy Works - from Union of Concerned Scientists

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