Save the Earth! Web Quest

Introduction
Your help is needed. You

have been chosen to fulfill a very special and important mission. Our planet EARTH is in TROUBLE! It is up to you to make a difference. This task has been created to give you some ideas to start you on your way. You will be given a list of tasks to complete in order to get our planet out of trouble.

that threaten our planet, how they affect it, and what

are the steps that should be taken in order to survive? You will be visiting various web sites to help you answer these questions and a few other webs showing guidelines in how to improve your writing.
After completing your research, you will present your findings in a presentation for the class. You will discuss your findings with the class.
Finally, you need to write down a paragraph explaining the dangers that threaten our planet and suggest some solutions in how to preserve it.

following websites will provide you with the needed vocabulary about

environment:
http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_environment.htm
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/science/enviro/vocab/
2. You have to know more about the dangers that threaten our planet. Visit these links, they will help you to deliver your opinion.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=global%20warming
http://www.climatehotmap.org/
http://www.causesofglobalwarming.net/the_causes.html
3.What will happen if nothing is done?
Watch the video entitled “Seal the Deal” and complete the sentence ‘if we don’t act now...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSDYOQdNd4s
Make up a sentence like these ones
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/earthday/heal.htm
If I could heal the planet, I would...
4. What can we do?
Here are a few ideas to save energy: select three tips and note them down below:
http://www.planetpals.com/partnerenergy.html

5. Some advice in writing skills:
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/partopic.html
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/coherent.htm

6.

This is the time to write down your paragraph. Consider the things that you have learned before.

7. After finishing writing your paragraph, please check it again and again.

8. You may ask your friend's opinion about your paragraph.

9. Submit it.

Process

Relevancy: Whether or not your paragraph is relevant with the

current issue, source and the topic.

2. Accordance : Whether or not your paragraph successfully conveys the issue.

3. Language: Whether or not your paragraph contains misspelling, grammatical errors and mistakes.

of helping our planet and the environment around us. Hopefully

students will have developed a deeper environmental conscience.