AAM Waynesburg WebQuests Teaching With Primary Sources Program Goals Level Two: Evaluate, create and teach subject-specific, standards-based learning experiences that integrate primary sources from the Library of Congress and exemplify instructional best practices. Level Three: Develop a network of experienced teachers who advocate the use of primary sources and widely disseminate the ideas, methods and products of the Teaching with Primary Sources program. Best Instructional Practices Differentiated Instruction - Curriculum Differentiation is a broad term referring to the need to tailor teaching environments and practices to create appropriately different learning experiences for different students. Many of these WebQuests differentiate by expanding the content beyond existing print and media materials to include the rich digital archives of the Library of Congress. Process is also differentiated in these WebQuests when students are challenged to think creatively, collaboratively and critically. Many of these WebQuests speak to a variety of learning styles in both content and process. Teaching for Understanding – These projects exemplify TFU by using Generative Topics that have multiple connections to students' interests and experiences and can be learned in a wide variety of ways. They also include “performance understanding” by using activities that both develop and demonstrate students' understanding of the generative topics by requiring them to use what they know in new ways. WebQuest – All projects listed below follow the guidelines provided by Bernie Dodge and Tom March. The uniqueness is that only Library of Congress primary documents are used to engage students in real-life problem solving. The WebQuests follow a learning cycle of ITO: Input of information (LOC documents), Transformation of information (thinking process), and Output (final student product). Throughout the WebQuests, formative and summative assessment rubrics are provided. Pennsylvania Academic Standards K-12 Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening History Geography Arts and Humanities Career Education and Work
Author	Title	Grade Level	Alignment: 1. TPS Program Goals 2. Best Instructional Practices 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards
Buchanan, Andrea	The Great Me, the Webquest-ion of Who Am I?	A Counseling WebQuest for ALL ages	1. TPS Level 3. This is an excellent example of a lesson designed for team teaching with a school counselor and a subject-specific classroom teacher. 2. An outstanding example of Differentiated Instruction, this WebQuest will appeal to the visual learner and those who learn best through peer interaction. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Career Education and Work K-12
Canning, Ann B.	From Baseball to Rock And Roll	5^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2. This WebQuest connects a prominent LOC exhibit to current events and Social Studies Curriculum. 2. An excellent example of Teaching for Understanding, this WebQuest focuses on a comprehensive and universal essential question: “How does Interdependence change popular culture? 3. National Council for Social Studies Standard IX: understand the increasingly important and diverse global connections among world societies.
Canning, Ann B.	WebQuesting at the Library of Congress	Teachers - K-12	1. TPS Level 3 This WebQuest about WebQuests for teachers includes peer evaluations and a number of collaborative activities. 2. The instructional model for WebQuests is expanded in this project to include the use of LOC digital archives. 3. National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers: Teachers design higher order thinking learning activities that maximize education technology.
Carpenter, Lauren Hanley and Hanley, Ed	A Lifestyle Forgotten	8^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 3. This project was designed and taught by a team of two teachers from different subject areas. It was developed during an online course which included peer as well as instructor critiquing and collaboration. 2. A wonderful example of Teaching for Understanding, this WebQuest includes performance understanding. Students are asked to demonstrate their understanding of traditional children’s games and past times by teaching a game to their peers. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8 and Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking Gr. 8.
Heidler, Kathy	A Forgotten War	5^th Grade Creative Writing	1. TPS Level 2 and 3. This project uses extensive LOC audio and image archives to teach an existing writing unit that integrates technology, interviewing skills, essay writing, history, and current events. It was developed during an online course which included peer as well as instructor critiquing and collaboration. 2. This WebQuest effectively emulates Differentiated instruction using cooperative learning groups that are mixed ability level and mixed learning style. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Reading, Writing Listening and Speaking Gr. 5
Heidler, Kathy	Thomas Jefferson: 21st Century Man	5^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2. This WebQuest uses the largest number of LOC documents of all projects developed at Waynesburg College. The author incorporates not only American Memory sources but Thomas documents as well. 2. This is an exceptional example of Teaching For Understanding through Performance. Students are divided into campaign staff teams to develop a platform for Thomas Jefferson to run for president in 2007 by interpreting Jefferson’s philosophy resented in LOC documents. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History, Math, Technology and Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.
Hunter, Frank	CRASH!	10^th Grade American History	1. No TPS goals were addressed in this WebQuest. 2. This WebQuest includes all the components of the Dodge model. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 10
Krocsko, Katie	Billy Yank vs. Johnny Reb	Middle School Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2. This WebQuest uses a large number and variety of primary source documents from LOC to promote higher order thinking. Students are asked to select and defend a visual metaphor. 2. This project uses the student task to illustrate Teaching for Understanding through student performance. “Your mission is to portray the life of a Yankee and the life of a Rebel using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Specifically you will need to choose one photograph to represent each way of life and defend your choice using examples from letters and interviews.” 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8.
Krocsko, Katie	Days of Infamy	Middle School Social Studies	1. TPS Level 3. This WebQuest inspired the author’s classmate to take the project into his own classroom in a different school district. It was developed during an online course which included peer as well as instructor critiquing and collaboration. 2. The universal question asked in this WebQuest: “How does a National Tragedy influence the individuals of that nation?” demonstrates the best instruction practices found in Differentiated Instruction. The academic content traditionally taught for WWII has been expanded to include abstractions drawn from the comparison of two national tragedies: Pearl Harbor and September 11. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8.
White, Dave and Cheryl	Amerique or America?	8^th Grade Social Studies and Graphic Arts	1. TPS Level 3. Developed by a Graphic Arts Teacher and an Elementary Teacher, this project was actually used as an interdisciplinary project for Social Studies and Graphic Arts. 2. By asking students to analyze primary documents to determine different points of view for the French and Indian War, this WebQuest illustrates Differentiated Instruction. This task is open-ended. There is no one right answer and students are encouraged to be creative and take risks. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8 and Science and Technology Gr. 8.
Willard, Ann	Hanging Out With Lewis and Clark	8^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2. This project highlights the LOC learning page interactive feature, “Fill Up The Canvas”, about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It also directs students to more scholarly text documents in the Thomas Jefferson Exhibit. 2. The Best Practice demonstrated in this project is Differentiated Instruction. There are primary documents for all skill levels and a variety of learning styles including maps, paintings and letters. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8.
Williams, Jeanne	Making Connections: How Oral Histories Connect Us to the Past, Present and Future	5^th - 8^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2: This WebQuest uses the LOC Federal Writer’s project archives to introduce students to the purpose and practice of oral history. 2. This is an outstanding example of Teaching For Understanding. The students actually develop their own oral history interviews in order to understand the social culture of the past. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History and Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.
Wilson, Zachary	The Little Guys In The Great War	11^th Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2: This project incorporates extensive LOC digital documents including a WWI timeline, WWI Events and Statistics and WWI Newspaper Pictorials. 2. Differentiated Instruction is illustrated in this WebQuest by the use of photo analysis sheets requiring students to engage in higher order thinking. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History Gr. 8.
Wise, Amanda	Mapping The National Parks	Third Grade Social Studies	1. TPS Level 2: This project focuses on the LOC collection, “Mapping the National Parks”. 2. Differentiated Instruction: Students in third grade are challenged to think at Bloom’s highest level of thinking when they answer the WebQuest question: “Would you be willing to give your land to the government for the development of a new national park?” 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History, Geography and Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.
Wise,Sue and Martin, Amy	HerStory	8^th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts	1. TPS Level 2: This WebQuest links students to the extensive LOC Learning Page Feature, “Pages from HerStory”. 2. This excellent example of Teaching for Understanding includes ongoing assessment rubrics to give students continual feedback about their performances of understanding in order to improve them. 3. Pennsylvania Academic Standards for History and Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.