Wandering with Alice

A WebQuest for 3rd-5th Grades Language Arts

Introduction:

Welcome to the World of Wander! At this webquest, you will take an adventure through Alice's World. As we hop down the hole with rabbit, let us experience life through a dream. When traveling through this puzzle-land, you will meet Alice and her many friends. As you take this journey, visualize the setting and the characters to help you create your own Wonderland. So let's take on the tasks, and travel through the World of Wander.

The Tasks:

As you travel through this webquest, here are some of the things that you will accomplish:

learn to sequence order of events in the story Alice in Wonderland,
identify Alice's relationships with the other characters,
compare original illustration to more recent illustrations
test knowledge by completing quiz,
provide final thoughts about the story,
create portfolio of required work,
finally, profile and identify some of the author's other works.

The Process:

As mentioned earlier, you will take an adventure through the World of Wander. Here you will find some great websites that will help you to accomplish your tasks.

1. Alice in Wonderland - An Interactive Adventure - Click on this site to find activities to enjoy Alice and her Wonderland friends. Find activities that will be stimulating and challenging. From poems to games to postcards, you will enjoy your adventure. You will chose different activities to perform alone and as a group. These activities will help to broaden your imagination. Chosen activity will be shared with the class, and placed in your portfolio.
2. Wonderland's Chapters and Original Illustrations - This site provides the classical story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The story includes the chapters that are separately titled and illustrated for easy reading, and fast chapter references. Read the story and identify the characters and the plot. You will determine what you liked and disliked about the story. List 3 things you liked and disliked. You will also list the order of the events as they happended in the novel. Place work in portfolio.
3. Bedtime - Story Classics - The story of Alice in Wonderland is now at your bed. This site provides assistance to the children of busy, business-parents. The illustrations are great, which will stimulate reading and understanding. At this site, you will compare and describe the differences in the illustrations from this site and the original illustrations in the previous site. This site will also allow you to get a better visualization of the characters, the setting, and the plot. This site will help you to identify the order of the events. You can read aloud with others. As you read, imagine yourself in wonderland.
4. Alice Quiz - This site provides you with the opportunity to test your knowledge of Alice and her friends. Here you will complete the test on the characters and events that took place in the novel Alice in Wonderland. Remember, you must read the on-line novel before you can complete your test. The test will be graded. If you need help completing your test, review the story. You will also be required to place the test in portfolio.
5. Scrambledwords - At this site, you will unscramble words from the novel Alice in Wonderland. You must know the characters and the events of the novel before you can complete this activity. When you have unscrambled the wonderland words, you will use these words in sentences to form final thoughts on the story. You may even give Alice's Wonderland your own little twist. This activity will be placed in your portfolio.

6. Teach-nology - Carroll's Wonderland - A site good for linking to other sources of Alice in Wonderland material. It also provides a variety of sites that link you to other works by the author, Lewis Carroll. There is also access to the Children's Literature. At this site, you will profile the author by giving a few statements about him and/or his work. List 3 things you thought were important about the author.You will also identify some of his other works. Place activity in portfolio. Once this is done, fill free to adventure through the Children's Literature.

The Evaluation:

You will be evaluated according to the performance stated in the rubric. (Ex: If you receive a score of 100 on each task, then you will receive a 100 on his/her unit grade. Work will be evaluated on individual performance.

Categories to be measured	Beginning 20	Developing 50	Accomplished 80	Exemplary 100
Organize the Sequence of Events	Knows a few of the events, but not in sequential order.	Has over half of the events in the correct sequential order.	Can organize all events in sequential order from the beginning of the story to the end.	Shows mastery by sequencing events in order from the beginning to the end of the story. Work is neat and includes descriptions.
Demonstrate having read the on-line story.	Can get to on-line story from the given website.	Can only list a few of the characters. Cannot give the plot.	Can list all characters with descriptions being given to half of them. Cannot give the plot.	Shows mastery by listing all the characters with 1 characteristic about each, and giving the plot to the story.
Assessment	Has located the on-line test and scrambleword activity, but can not correctly answer the questions or unscramble the words.	Has linked to the on-line test and scrambleword acitivity. Can correctly answer at least half of the test questions, and can unscramble half or the words correctly.	Has linked to the on-line test and scrambleword activity. Can correctly answer test questions, and can unscramble most of the words correctly.	Has met necessary requirements by being able to complete the test, and unscramble all of the words.
Portfolio	Turns in collection of activites, but nothing in portfolio.	Included activities in portfolio. Missing evaluation components, final thought report, and information on the author.	Has compiled collection of activities. Missing one required component.	Has everything that is required to go in portfolio. It is neat and shows your creativeness and artistic ability.

Conclusion:

By completing the WebQuest you will become familiar with Alice's adventures in Wonderland. You will be able to identify the characters in this novel, and will be able to give some characteristics on each one. You, the learner will better understand the process of sequencing events, and identifying important information about authors. You will be familiar with the process of compiling a portfolio. If you are interested in other fun Alice in Wonderland activities, you can locate sites in this quest that will link you right to the fun.

Credits & References:

I would like to give thanks to the following sites for providing me with the wonderful information that allowed me to complete this quest: Interactive link, Scrambledword link, Alice quiz link, Bedtime story link, and Teach-nology link. I would also like to give thanks to my partner, Besty Little, for moral support.

Teacher Advice:

This lesson is recommended for third to fifth grade students. This is a language arts lesson that involves social studies, art and math to a lesser extent. This lesson can easily be extended to additional grades and subjects, by providing more challenging assignments to upper grade levels. Teachers can also have upper-level students re-create the story as a group activity.

Students will need to understand how to sequence events prior to this lesson. They must also have an understanding of how to compile a portfolio. You must guide your students through this quest to help them to become comfortable in using the internet.

This lesson is organized, by first having the students to locate and read the on-line version of the novel, Alice in Wonderland. The lesson will extend one class meeting, and is also taught more than one period per day, it is part of several periods. This lesson can be organized to cover a one week period by dividing assignments. It is a multidisciplinary lesson because it touches on several subjects in the curriculum.

The teacher needs to feel comfortable navigating the internet. This activity is easy for a novice teacher. The teacher will need to provide students with prior lessons that require using the internet. The teacher will need to direct the students to be able to use their imagination in order to complete the assignments. There may be a possible need to clarify some questions pertaining to the events or characters in this novel. By doing so, you should avoid any misconceptions or stumbling blocks.

This activity can be group oriented. After students have met evaluation requirements, they could re-act the novel. Students can re-act their favorite scene. Groups can also create a new ending to share with the class. Rubric can be designed to evaluate group work. More focus could be placed on identifying the story elements (ex. plot, setting, etc ). This activity can be assisted by parents.

One teacher can implement this lesson. This lesson can be accomplished with the help of an assistant so that students can meet the requirements in the rubric. Any questions or misconceptions that students may have can be tended to by an assistant. Paper and portfolio file will be needed to complete the lesson.

Created by Marjahna Hart for EDU 506 @ FHU School of Education by Dr. Bruce Lewis on November 10, 2001.