Famous American's Webquest Research

This is a webquest I created to supplement our Famous Americans unit in second grade (VA SOL SS 2.11)

It includes two recording sheets and 2-3 websites to view for each of the following famous Americans:

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. George Washington

3. Susan B. Anthony

4. Helen Keller

5. Martin Luther King Jr.

6. Jackie Robinson

(One 3-2-1 and one lined page for each famous American. I allowed them to choose which form for notetaking they would like to use, but that they had to record AT LEAST 3 facts. I also gave them the option to research with a buddy. This helped my struggling readers/writers and motivated some others.)

I put the links from the top of each page into a word document and uploaded it to our class website for easy opening and navigating to each website. This list of links may be found on the last page of this document.

We spent a day in the computer lab researching, then a day in the classroom with read alouds, sharing what they found, and discussion for each famous American. I will definitely use this with my class next year. It took an otherwise dry, memorize the facts, unit and gave them the opportunity to dig deeper and practice their research and technology skills.