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1960's Museum (WebQuest)  
URL:http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/museum/webquest.html
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Society and Environment teaching units 

Developed by Kathy Schrock for the Discovery School. This web quest looks at important events of the 1960's. Students identify people and events of importance in the 1960's and find Internet sites that support interpretation of these events.

Albert Speer - Who Was He?  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/webquest.asp?id=72
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Senior secondary history 

This WebQuest is designed for students in NSW Stage 6 Modern History, Australia. It explores the role of Albert Speer as Hitler's architect and Armaments Minister during World War II. It looks at Speer's activities and various interpretations of his actions both during the 1933-45 period and his subsequent imprisonment and life after his release from Spandau Prison in 1946.

Amistad Case - A Mock Trial (WebQuest)  
URL:http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/hoover/amistad/
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Society and Environment teaching units 

Developed by San Diego City Schools under "The Triton Project" - a multi-partner educational collaborative. A Web Quest about Amistad in the form of a mock trial. Students are assigned roles as Courtroom Officials, Reporters, Lawyers and Africans. They investigate the Amistad Case and prepare evidence for a mock trial.

Ancient Egypt - A Webquest  
URL:http://www.sctboces.org/teachercenter/webquests/Gina/egypt.htm
Category:Ancient Societies  Society & Environment Learning Quests 

A task page for a group of upper primary/lower secondary students with full instructions. It contains links to resources to complete the task. Could be adapted to many classroom situations

Big Wide World - Web Quest  
URL:http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bww/
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Global Education Learning Quests 

This web quest is for K - 4th Grade students. It relates to understanding how such domains as science and the humanities relate to the world around us by engaging students in critical and wholistic thinking, following a formal web quest structure. The web quest poses questions, sets a task, describes roles which the students will adopt, the group work they will undertake, and the rubric which draws the work together.

Butterfly Webquest  
URL:http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/butappearance/index.html
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Online Games & Activities  Structure & Function 

This is a web resourced, integrated unit of work, which has been developed to increase the understandings of students in the Primary Years Bands about the appearance of butterflies. It has been aligned with the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability Framework (SACSA framework).

Castle Discovery - A Webquest for Grades 3 to 7  
URL:http://www.windarooss.qld.edu.au/WebQuests/Castle_Webquest/welcome.htm
Category:Society and Environment teaching units  Society & Environment Learning Quests  Technology Learning Quests 

Castle Discovery is a Web Quest that looks at how a castle was built and how it could be used today.

Champions of Justice - A Human Rights WebQuest  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/championsofjustice/
Category:Values Learning Quests  Australian Studies Learning Quests  Society & Environment Learning Quests  Global Education Learning Quests  Civics and Citizenship 

This Australian webquest aims at developing an awareness in students about the Rights of the Child, why they need addressing and what they can do to help. Students are provoked into considering where they stand on social issues and forming opinions about what they believe and the values underlying their beliefs. This web quest is designed for students in the Middle School.

Children in the Ghetto  
URL:http://ghetto.galim.org.il/eng/
Category:Senior secondary history  Society & Environment Learning Quests 

Children in the Ghetto portrays life during the Holocaust from the viewpoint of children who lived in the ghetto, while attempting to make the complex experience of life in the ghetto as accessible as possible to today?s children. The site invites children to move around a virtual street and enter various locations in it. In each of the locations, original exhibits such as video testimonies, photographs, paintings, artifacts etc. are accompanied by interactive and thought-provoking activities. Due to the young age of learners, discussion of death in the ghetto, and the deportations to the death camps, have been avoided.

Chinese Cultural Revolution: WebQuest  
URL:http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/vsshistory/Sem2/2China/Studyroom/6cultrev/webcultural.htm
Category:China  Investigation, Communication & Participation  Society & Environment Learning Quests 

This webquest requires each member of the team to become an expert in one individual/family's experience during this time in Chinese history. Then they'll have to come back together to answer a question that gets to the heart of 'what's the truth and who says so?' Question: 'How did Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution affect the lives of ordinary Chinese - at home and abroad?'