Class Dictionary WebQuest
Introduction
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Credits
Introduction
This WebQuest is designed to help students on the 3rd
grade level expand their vocabulary knowledge. It
will be a single student effort that will be fun and
challenging.
Students will also further their knowledge of computer
skills by searching the internet for information,
using Microsoft Word and get a beginning glimpse
at using Microsoft Excel.
Task
You will be choosing a list of 20 vocabulary words that we have not covered in
class this year and defining them in your own words. You will type your
finished list in Microsoft Word, print it and turn it into me.
I will compile the lists into a dictionary that I will bind and pass out to the
class.
Use these four websites to find your words:
www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionary
www.wordcentral.com (click on Build Your Own Dictionary to browse)
www.giraffian.com/dictionary
www.allwords.com
Process
Students will work separately on the project.
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Go to the provided websites after you are assigned a letter of the alphabet.
Pick 20 words that begin with that letter. These should be words that we have not gone
over in class.
Once you have your list of words, read the definition and then define it in your own words
based on what you have read.
Include parts of speech and how to pronounce the word with your definition.
Type all of this in Microsoft word. Make the vocabulary words bold-faced and underlined.
Use italics for the pronunciation and put in parenthesis. Type your definitions after this.
Be sure to type everything in 12 point Times New Roman font so everyone’s pages look
the same.
Compose a sentence with every word and type under the definition in italics.
Use Microsoft Excel to create a word jumble. Additional instructions on how to do this
part of the project will be talked about and demonstrated in class.
Evaluation
Beginning
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Developing
2
Accomplished
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Exemplary
4
Score
Word
Selection
Understands
the definition
&
demonstrates it
Computer
Skills
Spelling
and
Grammar
Total:
Conclusion
After completing this project you should know 20 new
words and be able to use them in daily conversation if
called for. You should be familiar with at least 600
new words after receiving your copy of the class
dictionary.
Students will also have expanded their knowledge of
Microsoft Word and got beginning idea of how to use
Microsoft Excel while participating in this WebQuest.
Credits
The only websites used to create this WebQuest
are the ones previously listed in the Task slide
and
www.webquest.org
The Class Dictionary WebQuest was designed by
Aerin Walters, student in Elementary
Education at the University of Louisiana at
Monroe.