Birthday buddies WebQuest

Objectives

• Students will find and gather information about people and events on his or her birthday
  
  
• Students will present their information using a PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Students will learn various features of Microsoft PowerPoint while creating their presentation
  
  

Materials

• Computer
  
  
• Internet Access
  
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 or greater
  
  
• PowerPoint handout
  
  
  
  

Procedure

1. Students will download the the blank birthday buddies presentation
   
   
2. Students will find facts about their birthday by looking on infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/birthday
   
   
3. Students will decide what information they want to share with the class and add that information to the slides in the presentation
   
   
4. Students will modify the presentation by adding additional multimedia or by customizing their presentation
   
   
5. http://go.grolier.com:80/
   
   
6. Students will share their presentation to the class
   
   

 Info Please   Info please site
 Groliers  
 birthdaybuddiestemplate.ppt