Webquest

http://questgarden.com/109/15/1/100917151403/

Intro:
Strength - Very direct and easy to understand
Weakness - Grammar errors. Further, I think they could do more than just teach the kids about lat./long. which to me is something they should know how to do by 7th grade.

Task:
Strength - I like the fact that it is done as a group assignment.
Weakness - What if some of the group members can't access the web from home?

Process:
Strength - I like that it gets the kids using lat./long. and stresses the importance of using negative number for south and west
Weakness - The typos. There's no such latitude 600N or 500N. That's a huge error.

Evaluation:
Strength - Clear explanation of point values
Weakness - No explanation of what each category is.

Conclusion: I felt that the conclusion was super weak. Why not ask some closing questions? Why not try to relate this coordinate system to math. Just really lacking.

I probably wouldn't use this in my class as I feel its way too elementary for high school kids. I'd have to include some major modifications to the exercise if I were to use it. Such mods would include a 'scavenger hunt' for locations around the world. I'd probably also include information about how to read a maps key, scale, etc.