PowerPoint Presentation WebQuests Whats All the Fuss

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Are you ready for...
The Worlds Quickest WebQuest ???????????
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The Martian HaikuQuest
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Introduction

• Japan is quietly preparing the technologies that
  will enable the settling of Mars in the last
  years of this new century.
• To help establish a link in the public mind
  between Japan and Mars, Sony is sponsoring a
  worldwide contest for the best Haiku written
  about the Red Planet.

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The Task

• To win the contest, write a haiku that
  successfully captures the rugged beauty of Mars
  while staying within the spirit of the haiku
  form.
• Do it well, and the 1 Million Yen prize is yours!

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The Process

• 1. First learn about the haiku form
• Three short lines
• 5-7-5 syllables in Japanese
• Often alludes to a season or nature
• Captures the essence of a particular moment while
  giving it a surprising twist

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The Process

• Some example haiku

Along this road Goes no one, This autumn eve
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The Process

• Some example haiku

daffodils open around my mailbox but no letter
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The Process

• Some example haiku

In the sun the butterfly wings like a church
window
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The Process

• 2. You will work in teams of two.
• One person is to study graphic images of Mars and
  think of metaphors for the features they see.
• The second person is to look at factual,
  scientific information about Mars and think of
  how these might be used in a poem.

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Process

• Here are your simulated web pages.One person is
  to look only at the left side of the screen, the
  other only to the right. You will not have time
  to study both sides of the screen, so focus on
  your own task.

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• Like Mercury, Venus and Earth, Mars is mostly
  rock and metal. Mountains and craters scar the
  rugged terrain.

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• The dust, an iron oxide, gives the planet its
  reddish cast.

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• Thin atmosphere and an elliptical orbit combine
  to create temperature fluctuations ranging from
  minus 207 degrees Fahrenheit to a comfortable 80
  degrees Fahrenheit on summer days at the equator.

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• Mars was most likely warm and wet about 3.7
  billion years ago. But as the planet cooled, the
  water froze. Remnants exist as ice caps at the
  poles

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• Compared to Earth
• Mass 11 of Earth's
• Diameter 53 of Earth's
• Distance from sun 1.5 times as far

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• Percival Lowell, an amateur astronomer who
  studied Mars into the early 1900s, thought he saw
  canals that must have been dug by inhabitants.
  Upon closer examination with modern telescopes
  and planetary probes, they turned out to be
  optical illusions.

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The Process

• 3. Share your impressions with your partner.
  Draft your Haiku tying together both the facts
  and visual impressions.

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Issues experienced in this simulation

• Interdependence
• No time for surfing
• More resources brought into the discussion by
  working in parallel
• Scaffolding
• Taking advantage of the webs timeliness and
  colorfulness
• Transformation of information, not simply
  retelling

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Why teach this way? Because tomorrows adults
will need to

• think together
• think for themselves
• know how to teach themselves new tricks
• make sense of information theyve never seen
  before
• generate their own questions and know how to find
  the answers

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A WebQuest Haiku

• Singers in different keys
• Struggle, connect.
• Conceive new chords.