Web Quest Texas

A Web Quest for 7th Grade Texas History

Designed by

Cynthia Krohn & Lynn Schieber
ckrohn@houstonisd.org
edu_mjs@shsu.edu

Appendix C

WebQuest Texas

Teacher Page
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Multidisciplinary Unit
Sample Graph

Student Page
Web Resources
Evaluation Table
Site Chart
Graph Example

Home

This is a very limited list of resources that you may find helpful.  These sites will get you just about any place you want to go.

  www.traveltex.com - Official Texas Tourism web site

www.lsjunction.com - Lone Star Junction – a very complete jumping-off place

www.eol.jsc.nasa.gov - NASA (one of their many sites)

www.texancultures.utsa.edu/public/index.htm - The Institute of Texan Cultures

www.tenet.edu/academia/hist.html - great links to Texas history

http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/history.html  Armadillo's WWW Server Texas Studies Informational and Instructional resources

www.nationalgeographic.com - National Geographic on line

 Web Resources

The Complete National Geographic – 100 years of National Geographic Magazine on CD-ROM – over 80 articles from the late 1800’s to the present pertaining to Texas

Books – these publishers have a very complete list of reference books as well as literature that pertains to Texas.  

  www.eakinpress.com - Eakin Press

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/wtp/level4t/ - Houghton-Mifflin, Texas reference books and literature

Hendrick-Long Publishing Company, 2000-2001 Texana & More Catalog

1-800-544-3770 or e-mail hendrick-long@worldnet.att.net  - great selection of literature

Suggestions for language arts activities:

   read a story, novel, etc, as a class

   research a famous Texan & write a one page report about their life

   create an illustrated time line of a famous Texan’s life

   write a poem about a famous Texan or event in Texas history

   write a children’s picture book about Texas

   using the alphabet, illustrate each letter with a Texas theme

   create an advertisement for Texas (video, “billboard”, radio, newspaper, etc)

   write a newspaper article about a Texas town, museum, event, person, etc.

   hold a read in and read “Texas” books

   interview a DRT member

Index Page  |  Student WebQuest Texas Page  |  | Teacher WebQuest Texas Page  

© Cynthia Krohn & Lynn Schieber 7/2001

Last modified 11/15/2001
Send comments to webmaster