Task 15

Create a Webquest

The post we show you today is about the creation of a Webquest, which is an online tool to provide a guided learning using Internet resources. In our case, we have created 6 activities related to the CLIL unit we designed in the previous posts about classification of living beings.

The main things students need to do is to look for specific information in a given webpage, watch videos and ask questions about them, surf the Internet to make a little research to classify a living organism, look for the missing words of some sentences on a webpage, and finally check what they have learned doing playing two games.

Here you are our webquest:

A WEBQUEST ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS

Activity 1: Read the information in this website http://www.softschools.com/science/biology/classification_of_living_things/ and complete the missing words of the sentences:

a. ____________ is the most basic classification of living things is.

b. Humans are in the ____________.

c. The second level in the classification of living things is ____________.

d. Organisms in each class are divided into ____________.

e. The genus is used to determine ____________.

f. The most specific classification of living beings is ____________.

g. ____________ is a way to describe the generic name for an organism.

h. The main criterion for an organism to be placed in a particular species is ____________.

i. A ____________ is a checklist of characteristics that determines how organisms are grouped together.

j. Organisms of a ____________ have even more in common than those in an entire ____________.


Activity 2: Watch the video Classification of Living Things in this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxomJIBGcY and write a short description about it.
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Activity 3: Take a look to the example of the full scientific classification of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the table. Then, choos an animal and ook in the internet for its full classification (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species). You can use the Wikipedia to look for the information.

Activity 4: Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCm5CcQhU-c about classifying vertebrate animals and answer the following questions:

a. Which are the two main groups of animals?

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b. How many groups of vertebrate animals are there? Write their names.

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c. Can you give two examples of animals from each of the groups?

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d. Now, give three examples of invertebrate animals.

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e. They drink milk from their mums, they have hair and they breathe with lungs. Which group of animals are we talking about?

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Activity 5: Go to http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/earth/amazonriver.html and find the missing information:

a. The length of the Amazon River: _______________.

b. The majority of the Amazon River runs through: _______________.

c. A meat eating type of fish that lives in the Amazon River: _______________.

d. Population of the largest city along the Amazon River: _______________.

e. Continent where we find the Amazon River: _______________.

f. Countries Amazon River runs through: An animal that is known to attack larger animals: _______________.

g. Number of species of fish in the Amazon River: _______________.

h. The largest city along the Amazon River: _______________.

i. One of the largest snakes in the world: _______________.

j. Length of the Amazon River during the wet season: _______________.

Activity 6: Let’s play a bit! Click the links and check if you have learned about the classification of living things:

Game 1.

Game 2.