Scaffolding Exercise #4 Guide

As you look over the WebQuest of each of your colleagues, use this guide to help you zero in on possible opportunities to help them improve the Reception and Transformation aspects of their lessons.

Reception

What kinds of resources are the learners interacting with in this WebQuest? Circle as many as appropriate and add any others that are significantly different from these.

People (face to face)
Primary sources
Images
Information about sequences of events
Documents with above-grade level vocabulary
People (via the net)
Databases
Sounds
Fiction
Books

For each of these types of information sources, do you think that almost all of the learners being targeted would be able to acquire and retain the information they need to perform the task? If the answer is NO, then what kinds of scaffolding might you suggest? Here are some possibilities:

Interviewing Guides
Observation Guides
Listening Guides
Glossaries
Timeline templates
Notetaking guides
Reading Guides

Features chart

In the space below, jot some advice to the author of the WebQuest (e.g., "You should consider providing an incomplete timeline for the kids to complete as they read this account of the Civil War".)

 

 

 

 

Transformation

What kinds of transformations of information are the learners being asked to do? Circle as many as appropriate and add any others that are significantly different from these.

Idea generation
Comparison
Inductive reasoning
Decision-making
Problem-solving
Analysis
What-If?
Metaphor
Synthesis
Judgment

For each of these types of transformation, do you think that almost all of the learners being targeted would be able to perform the task? If the answer is NO, then what kinds of scaffolding might you suggest? Here are some possibilities:

Venn diagrams
Decision-helps
Ideation helps
Inductive tower

In the space below, jot some advice to the author of the WebQuest (e.g., "You should consider providing a Venn diagram template for the kids to complete as they compare the leadership qualities of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.")