WebQuest Strengths and Weaknesses

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Gorillas	Offers a good opportunity for students to communicate and come to a conclusion about a specific problem happening in our world.	Although the WebQuest offers time with groups, most of the information they're looking for is a low level scavenger hunt type of work.
Shakespeare	Very thorough group work has to be done to accomplish this activity and offers a "consensus guide" to help guide students to organize their group work.	The Phase One Research is not guiding the student to what the important facts are within their interest. The links are just listed and it tells students to "explore" the website and share what they've found.
Earthquake	The project offers students a chance to build something together and see the results when the buildings are finished. Discussion would be key in figuring out how to assemble the building.	It's encouraged throughout the assignment to work closely with your group but on the Evaluation their is no grade for team work. This could cause students to do their portion and not be motivated to work together.
Foreign Country	At the end of the presentation students vote on which country they would like to visit and that student wins a prize.	There is no group work involved in the making of this presentation which offers no communication between the students.
Waves & Sound	It's a very thorough assignment and will encourage the student to ask questions	No group work is involved in this assignment and the "Teacher Page" lacks a lot of information.

Best: Earthquake and Shakespeare both assigments offer steady group work where conversation is key but an individual effort will go noticed.

Worst: Gorillas and Waves these two assignments offer minimal to no group work and the assignment itself is very juvenile with little heavy analysis going into the students' conclusions.