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=Using ICT for teaching HSIE=

[|NSW Board of Studies]

WebQuests
Webquests are a great tool to assist and challenge student's learning. Set a task for students, set specific criteria, and give links to appropriate websites you want them to access. There are many useful teacher websites that give instructions, ideas, formula for planning suitable webquests,and curriculum related quests. Just google webquests and browse.

A simple sample of this could be...

__Task -__ To plan a world trip __Criteria__ - You must travel for 6 weeks, you must visit 6 countries, You have a budget of $20 000, you must travel with a friend, Your budget must include food, accomodation, tours, spending money. __Plan__ - Must include your budget details using **Microsoft Excel,** Itinery of each country (details of tours etc) __Explain -__ why you have chosen countries, tours, travel methods etc. __Web links -__ __Lonely Planet__, __Encarta Atlas__, __World Atlas__, __Flight Centre__, __Where will you go?__

[] The British Museum has excellent sites for teaching about all of its collections. The sites have stories, games and great visuals about about the life and times of ancient Egypt. Rome etc.

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