by Beatriz Papaseit, IES Gabriela Mistral
Webquest on James Cook's First Voyage to New Zealand. Students will reconstruct the story of the arrival of the Endevour in New Zealand through the eyes of some of the participants in history.
Teacher Introduction
The webquest is intended as a way to familiarize students with James Cook First Voyage. The students should be working in groups of three of four people. The tasks involved require both individual and team work. The individual work consists in telling the story of the arrival of the Endeavour in New Zealand from the point of view of one of the characters involved in that story. The team work involves presenting the information to the rest of the group, creating a wiki to include what has been learnt and presenting everything to the whole group as final activity.
This webquest is part of a wider project which includes other webquests on the 18th century. Ideally, every group of three or four students should work on a different webquest. The instructions and the process have been written with this idea in mind. If your plan to use this webquest on its own, you should first revise the instructions and the process.
The other webquests in this project are: