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Best WebQuests - Tom March, co-creator of WebQuests has gathered some of the best WebQuests from around the world and has done a complete assessments, showing you strengths and weaknesses of each. Not much in the way of "true" WebQuests for grades 3-5 , but that's not surprising, because a true WebQuest is a high-end, authentic, challenging, collaborative, problem solving task that promotes critical thinking and classroom transformation.
Web-and-Flow - Tom March was co-creator of WebQuest, Filamentality, and Pac Bell Blueweb'n. He now has this subscription service for creating six different kinds of template driven web-based activities. This is best described a Filamentality on steroids. Using it effectively to create lessons requires professional development. However, you can search for activities already created by users. There is more here in the way of elementary school activities posted by users. If you go to the search page and do a search without entering any criteria, you will get a listing of about 200 activities. It's worth scanning all of the summaries to see if something fits your needs.
Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Portal offers reviewed WebQuests created by his students and workshop participants.
Filamentality - Use this site to create web based activities and to locate activities created by others. To locate activities, scroll down to Search Filamentality Here! When you get the results, look at the last modified date and the file size. They are both clues to locating quality products. The older the product, the more link rot. A larger size is usually related to the amount of time the person spent creating the activity.
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