Objectives:
 

Students will:

• find information about different aspects of the geography and geology of ancient Nebraska.
• find information about the paleoIndians.
• find information about the plants and animals found in ancient Nebraska.
• find information about the climate of ancient Nebraska.
• use information gathered to create a report, presentation, or other teacher directed activity.
• present their information to the class.

• Ancient Nebraska Web Quest.  Either installed on individual workstation, network, or on the Internet.
• Student data sheets.  Can be printed from the web site.
• A collection of books on prehistoric Nebraska.  A list can be found on the main page of the web quest.
• Presentation software, if computer generated presentations are assigned.
• Word processing program
• Prior to working on the quest, divide students into groups of 4 students each.  Each student should be assigned a title, i.e. anthopologist, botanist/zoologist, geographer/geologist, and climatologist.  When working to gather information from the Internet, it seems

to work better if all the students who have the same title work together, but cooperative groups will also work.  (Our team felt that when the students with same title worked together they were better able to help each other find information.)

        1.  Introduce the web quest to the students in the classroom before
             going on the computer. Read read through the introduction, task,
             and description of the team jobs.

        2.  Have student bring pencils and their data sheets to the computer.
             Explain that students should write the information on their data
             sheets.  Students click on their job title and this will take them to
             the Internet sites where the information can be found. (Usually
             about 2 half hour periods to collect data).

        3.  Student use the data collected to make a project.  The projects
             could be a presentation using any presentation software, a brochure,
             a report, or a poster to name a few.
 

Internet Site	Description
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/vertpaleo/skaffsto.htm	A description of  how an anthopologist finds fossils at Ashfall National Park
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/timeline.jpg	Ancient History Time Line
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/foodquiz.html	Hunter/gather Quiz from a website in the UK
http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/meta/m2325.html	Map of Tree cover in the U.S. in 1992
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/andreas_ne/  geology/geology-p1.html#eras	Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska
http://school.discovery.com/spring99/programs/  nextstep/resources.html	Early history and evolution links

 
Evaluation:

    See the student web quest for evaluation.