Hi all,

As requested here is my update on the term 4 webquest task. I see that the ‘Budget’ page has had lots of posts and the ‘Boom’ page has had a few so that’s great.

My approach with my two year 7 Science classes was to try and motivate them to become involved without making it a part of our classwork (we are studying ‘puberty’ at the moment so it didn’t really fit, although as we studied ‘cells’ earlier in the semester I felt some students would be interested).
I discussed the project in both classes and told them what a great opportunity it was, at least 15 students showed interest and requested the instruction sheet which I had photocopied. Unfortunately none of my students have registered yet and I am not hugely confident that they will unless I make them do it in class or set it as a must do homework task (which I feel defeats the point of intrinsic motivation a bit). On a positive note I see that Di has posted some great thought provoking content.

Also on a positive note my Science blog http://mrbarlow.wordpress.com/ is going really well with almost 2700 hits to date. So my students are doing some learning outside the confines of the classroom off their own bat

Tim Barlow