Instructional Applications of the Internet - June 22

Today I began working on getting caught up in my Instructional Applications of the Internet course.  I had not received an email introducing the course (NOTE: this turns out to have been due to my mistake...) and did not know what to get to work on.  Upon searching about the Vista site, I realized that I needed to get cracking on a WebQuest Proposal!

I decided to do my WebQuest on the different graphical representations that 8th Grade Math students (my students in particular!) need to be familiar with.  The students need to see uses of the graphs, need to know what graph is best for what circumstances and need to be able to derive conclusions and create arguments based on the graphs.  I felt that the best resource for these graphs would be the World Wide Web!  So, I will design a WebQuest that will give them the opportunity to find different types of graphs on the internet, explain why it is the appropriate type of graph for the situation and explain a conclusion that could be arrived at from the graph.