Creating a WebQuest

This WebQuest is designed to help students evaluate other WebQuests before they create their own.

The WebQuest also meets the following aspects of the 21st Century Skills Framework (among others):

Think Creatively

• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)


• Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)


• Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts

Reason Effectively

• Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation

Use Systems Thinking

• Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems

Make Judgments and Decisions

• Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs


•  Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view


• Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments


• Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis


• Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes

Solve Problems

• Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways


• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions