WebQuest Design CEP 811 Teacher Information LEARNERS This WebQuest is intended for high school students. It requires a certain maturity to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the content. Most learners have difficulties writing persuasive essays. Instead of asking students to simply imagine what professional boxers go through during and after a boxing match, we can actually have them read about their agony, watch family members’ testimonies, and see what doctors have to say about boxing patients. Then, when students present their arguments before an authority figure, in this case the Federal Boxing Commission, their essay (and other presentation mediums) will have a greater impact on their audience. EDUCATIONAL GOAL Students will have to write a persuasive letter to the Federal Boxing Commission urging them to ban boxing because of the injuries it afflicts on boxers. In order to do that, they will have to collect information pertaining to the different types of injuries boxers usually are subject to, and their effect (short and long term) on them. They will also have to gather statistics on injury and death tolls and present them in the form of a chart or world map representation. That is, they write the figures on each country on the world map for an easier visual representation. STANDARDS My WebQuest targets several standards:
Curricular Standards: Selecting, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information drawn from distinct sources Writing a persuasive letter in the form of an essay to a real audience
Social Standards: Making sound judgments about boxing Empathizing with society’s concerns
Technological Standards: Using Word to write an essay and create tables and charts Using PowerPoint to present information
Created by: Jean-Claude Aura
Date: April 2009
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