Web Quest for Utah History Fair
Finding useable community resources

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Introduction:

You have decided to research and prepare a project for the Utah History Fair. Good for you!  It will be a great experience and you will learn a lot.  You can even work together as a team to do this. A Web Quest site has been designed to give you ideas about possible community resources you could use as you investigate this project.

As a team select a topic to investigate: __________________________
or select on one of the following as a temporary topic to investigate.  You are to research historical changes during the past 50 years related to one of these topics.
 

1) Changes in Native American Arts

2) Technology's impact on business

3) Environmental changes on the Navajo Reservation

4) Indian education in the county

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Team Assignment:

Working together as a team of 3 to 5 members, your task is to determine which resources in your community may have information which will help you.  For this practice web quest, write down at least 10 places and/or people you could contact in San Juan County that might have information on the topic your team picked. Follow these steps to help you with your task:

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Process:

• Consider locations where information on your subject might me located.
• Go to those locations and read of the availability of research material.
• List on paper those sites that may have the information you are seeking

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Guide:

• Use this Community Resource Web Site:
• Explore the seven sections, writing down any sources you think may help you with your topic.
• To expedite the Web Quest, assign different members of the team different sections to explore if you have enough computers.
• Check off each section as you explore. Write down the places you will plan to investigate on the Community Resource Log.

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Community Resources Log:
 

Places to investigate	#1 Possible source	#2 Possible Source	#3 Possible Source
Libraries
Museums
Schools
Newspapers
Government
People
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Wrap up activity:

• Compare and share sources you found with your team
• Determine which ones will be most useful.
• Determine who will actually investigate which sources.
• Write the persons initials next to the source.
• Determine what questions need to be asked.
• Set a date to have investigation done, and to meet together again as a team





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Last updated January 2001

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