Communities and Schools Promoting Health

A Gateway to information on comprehensive school health (CSH) and health promoting schools (HPS)
Providing links to research, reports, how-to manuals, planning & assessment tools, lesson plans and student webquests
   


 

Student Tools for Webquests
 


 

Key Tools

Verbal Activities

  • Conduct an interview

  • Observe a situation

  • Ask an expert

  • Tell a story

  • Oral presentation

  • Role play/Simulation
  • Take a quiz
  • Visit a site in community/field trip

Written Products

  • Produce a graphic organizer

  • Make a game, board game
  • Organize a school awareness campaign
  • Organize a neighbourhood campaign
  • Plan a public awareness campaign
  • Prepare a display or exhibit booth
  • Prepare illustration, diagram, structure
  • Prepare a glossary of terms
  • Write to persuade

Multi-Media/Internet

  • Design, publish or analyze a website
  • Multi-media project
  • Prepare an ad/insert for a publication
  • Storyboard, cartoon or comic book
  • Prepare a power point presentation
  • Prepare a webquest
  • Slide show, hyperstudio
  • Prepare a web page/website
  • Create a board game
  • Create an online bulletin board

Research Reporting

  • Conduct a survey
  • Summarize and comment on readings
  • Prepare research report (individual)
  • Prepare and present research report (group)
  • Prepare proposal and advocate

Health/Personal and Social Development

  • Keep a Personal Health Journal
  • Help a peer (refer/advise/write to them)
  • Do an activity with parents
  • Map out health resources in community
  • Collect, analyze, compare health data
  • Promote health, respect for others
  • Analyze role of media
  • Identify your own traits/self-assessment
  • Maintain Personal Health Record
  • Organize a health fair
  • Write a letter to your parents

Maintain a Personal Health Action Plan

  • Prepare a Personal Health Action Plan
  • Prepare a family Health Action Plan

Math Activity or Statistical Analysis

  • Find the average (mean)
  • Compare results
  • Prepare a line graph/discuss trends
  • Prepare bar graph, compare results
  • Compare results over time
  • Conduct survey, determine proportions

Language Arts/Communication

  • Write a letter
  • Write a request letter
  • Write a comment letter
  • Write newspaper story
  • Create a class/school newspaper
  • Simulate a newscast
  • Write a business letter
  • Write a biography
  • Write an autobiography
  • Make a poster
  • Make a brochure/pamphlet
  • Do a photo essay
  • Write a greeting card
  • Assess media impact, bias
  • Prepare a crossword
  • Write an essay
  • Write annotated bibliography

Social Studies

  • Prepare a timeline
  • Prepare a detailed map
  • Prepare your family history
  • Do social history comparison
  • Detect bias
  • Assess, authenticate source
  • Prepare letter to authorities
  • Prepare letter to editor
  • Conduct a debate
  • Partner with students in another country
  • Write an editorial
  • Draw editorial cartoon
  • Prepare museum exhibit
  • Write fact sheet/write arguments
  • Give a speech

Physical Education

  • Conduct fitness test
  • Take Active Living Challenge
  • Create a sports game
  • Assess personal or family activity practices
  • Organize walkathon for selected cause

Science

  • Analyze data, product using science
  • Conduct science lab/experiment
  • Participate in Science Fair

Arts/Literature

  • Analyze, select works of art
  • Prepare a detailed map
  • Perform play, skit, improv
  • Draw cartoon
  • Create poster, art work, poem, music, story
  • Draw book cover
  • Create art gallery on topic
  • Prepare a collage

Coop Education/Vocational/
Community Service

  • Research job skills/credentials required
  • Simulate a problem on the job
  • Visit a job site
  • Job shadow for day/week
  • Coop Ed assignment (several-weeks)
  • Career awareness planning

School/Class Activities

  • Class survey
  • Class debate
  • Puppet show

Community/Service Learning Activities

  • Volunteer for several weeks/report
  • Organize a neighbourhood campaign
  • Plan a public service announcement
  • Plan an advertising campaign

 

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Introduction

These tools will help to complete the tasks and activities that are part of the webquests published on this website. Select the items below for an explanation of how to do the activity or activities suggested in the wbequest that you have chosen.

Although this website is for health webquests, a variety of skills from other subjects such as math or social studies can be used in health education and there are generic skills such as verbal presentations and research reports that also need to be used.

Please ask your teacher for additional help if you still do not understand what is being asked of you, or if you need additional help.

You may also want to review the Teacher Evaluation Tools to see how these types of activities are evaluated. Check with your teacher to see if he/she will be using these tools to evaluate your work.

You will also be evaluated on your teamwork, participation, critical thinking and inquiry skills.

We recommend that students using these webquests use the Personal Health Journal to reflect on their experiences. These journals have public sections to share with your teacher or classmates as well as a private section to keep your personal notes and ideas. Please check with your teacher to see if you are expected to keep a journal for your webquest.