Webquests

I decided to spend more time searching through the webquest archives and I found a lot of very interesting webquests related to teaching Spanish. There were ones geared to various levels of ability, which is nice because many times high school teachers have to teach classes at different ability levels. Many of the webquests were designed to teach students about the Hispanic culture. For instance, one webquest was designed to teach students about the famous Hispanic poet, Federico García Lorca. Another webquest I found really great was one designed as a group project for students. Students had to work together to plan a trip to South America on a limited budget. At the end all the groups would share their virtual trip to their specific country to the entire class. Part of learning Spanish is learning about the Hispanic culture as well and I really like these approaches to doing that.

In the future I could use webquests to create group projects similar to the ones I saw. The webquests can be varied to adapt the Spanish class. For the more advanced classes I would write the webquest only in Spanish, but for the lower level classes the webquest would be in English and would serve as an introduction to Hispanic culture rather than practice of the language.