Electricity Webquest

Butler Elementary

Avon School District, Massachusetts

INTRODUCTION

To power the many electronic devices we have in our lives requires an enormous amount of electrical energy.

Traditionally this energy has been created by the burning of fossil fuels like coal.

Today, the electricity that flows into our homes come from many sources. For example, the wind, the sun, running water, nuclear reactions and new fossil fuels like natural gas.

What will the future look like?

PROCEDURE

Your job is to select one of the electricity topics listed in the table below and teach your classroom members everything you can.

You will do this by producing two products.

Brainstorm

The first will be a brainstorm of all the facts that you can find about your chosen topic. Include pictures in your Kidspiration brainstorm, and make it look pretty because it will be printed and posted on your classroom display wall when it is done.

Oral Presentation

You will create a PowerPoint slideshow on your topic of no less then ten slides. This slideshow should be visually pleasing and communicate a clear message.

RESOURCES

"Mr. Pearse's Search Engine" from

CITATION OF SOURCES

ONE correct bibliography book reference is expected. This reference should be a book either from the library or one that you used from home. You must use the Citation Machine located at mrpearse.com.

Also, ONE web site reference will be needed. For websites please copy and paste the web address of the web site that you used.

EVALUATION

Data Organization & Planning (Inspiration) 

Presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint)

Citation of Sources Using Technology (Citation Machine)

CONCLUSION

In this major project you have researched one topic to an advanced level (Wikipedia and Google). You have then collected these facts and created a mind map out of them (Kidspiration). From this work you then created a visual presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint). Great job!