My colleague has performed webquests with her older elementary music students. A webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by students is found online.
One webquest she has performed is the following: The students were given a composer or performer from an era to study. They were given various websites to use to answer the questions about their composers. These questions are ones such as “When did the composer or performer live?” “Name 5 pieces that your composer wrote or name 5 songs your performer recorded” and others.
The students researched the composer in the computer lab. They then used Microsoft PowerPoint to make a slide presentation to present the facts about their composers. The powerpoint presentation had to have contained at least two pictures of the composer, one sound clip, transitions between slides, a title slide, and all of the answers to the questions, either presented in complete sentences or bullets.
As with any lesson that involves the internet, please test all websites before you use them in a class or ask students to visit them.
This ends (for now) my series of lessons that would benefit from taking place in a computer lab. As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions.
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