WebQuest

The Process

In order to accomplish this task, you will need to work as a team.

Step One: Learning to Work Together:
Working together to complete a task sounds easy until you try to do it. How can a team stay on task to become a Bueker record creator? You must learn how to work together! Your first job is to research what it takes to successfully work together.

With a partner visit the following sites to learn all you can about working with others:

Partners 1 and 2

Partners 3 and 4

Out on a Limb
Kids Health: Why Group Projects

Out on a Limb
How to Be an Effective Team Member

Now, use the information you learned to create a scoring guide that can be used by your team to evaluate your cooperative efforts in creating a record breaking event. Click here to go to the form you will use to record your ideas. Be sure to follow directions carefully. When your team has finished creating the daily scoring guide: save it to your team file, print it, and give it to your teacher for final approval.

Step Two: Work Together to Design a Record Breaking Activity
Activity 1. To get ideas for a record breaking event, you will visit the Guinness World Records site. You will not be using these events exactly, but it will help get you thinking about what creative and original event your team might be able to design as a record breaking event. Please keep in mind that your activity must be safely completed by an individual in 2 minutes or less. Also, keep in mind that you must be able to provide the supplies and that the supplies must be able to be used over and over for multiple participants. Good luck! Divide the work as follows:

Partners 1 and 2	Partners 3 and 4
Visit the following Guinness World Record locations: Human Body Arts and Media Amazing Feats Modern Society Try this at home You can also consult the book, Guinness World Records: Amazing School Records. (provided by your teacher)	Visit the following Guinness World Record locations: Natural World Travel and Transport Science and Technology Sports and Games Try this at home You can also consult the book, Guinness World Records: Amazing School Records. (provided by your teacher)

After exploring the above sites for approximately 25 minutes, your team should begin to discuss possible activity designs. A final decision will not be made until tomorrow. Take your time and spend the next 24 hours thinking over the possibilities. At the end of your work time today, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.

Activity 2: Now your team must reach an agreement on the activity you will develop. Discuss your plans and reach an agreement before moving on to the next part of your task.

For your activity to be a success, it is important that you very carefully and specifically plan all aspects of the record setting/breaking event. To make the task easier, divide the work so that each member completes one of the following activities. Read the descriptions and then negotiate within your team to determine which member has the qualities to best fulfill the responsibilities of each role. Click on your responsibility below to go to a form to be completed to show your thinking.

Activity Director Your job is to write a detailed description of the event explaining exactly how a person would set or break your record. When you have finished, have an activity director from another team check over your work to make sure you have done your job correctly.	Safety/Quality Manager Your job is to write a safety plan to make sure that all participants go unharmed and to describe conditions that would cause a participant to be disqualified. When you have finished, have a judge from another team check over your work to make sure you have done your job correctly.
Record Keeper Your job is to create a record keeping form so that detailed and accurate records can be kept during Bueker Record Day. When you have finished, have a record keeper from another team check over your work to make sure you have done your job correctly.	Supply Manager Your job is to list and describe every single supply needed by the team and how that supply will be used. When you have finished, have a supply manager from another team check over your work to make sure you have done your job correctly.

After each person in your team has completed his/her form, meet as a team to review each others information to make sure it is complete and carefully planned. Next, have your teacher approve all aspects of your planning. You are almost ready for the big day, Bueker School Records Day (BSR). At the end of your work time, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.

Activity 3: Before the big day arrives, your team must make sure that every one knows their responsibilities so that the event will go smoothly. Read the responsibilities related to your role. These are the jobs you will perform during BSR day. You will also need to decide who is bringing the necessary supplies. At the end of your work time, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.

Activity Director	Safety/Quality Manager
1. describe the activity, including disqualifications, to the participant so that he/she will know how to complete the record breaking task 2. demonstrate the activity, if necessary 3. judge proper performance and call disqualifications	1. make sure that safety is monitored throughout the event 2. serve as a timer for the event
Record Keeper	Supply Manager
record and maintain data include first and last name, homeroom, and numerical data count or do whatever it takes to get accurate and fair data	1. set up the materials so that each participant completes the activity in the same way each time 2. judge proper performance and call disqualifications 3. count or do whatever it takes to get accurate and fair data

Activity 4: Before the big day, your team should practice the record setting/breaking event to make sure everything goes smoothly on the big day. Each team member should practice their role by having a classmate from another team try the activity. At the end of your work time, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.

Activity 5: Students from other fifth grade classes will come to participate in Bueker School Records Day. Your team will do their job implementing the record setting/breaking event and collecting data. Good luck. At the end of the event, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.

Step 3:Create a page for The Bueker Book of School Records.

After the event your team will be creating a page to commemorate the record setting/breaking winner. Your page will be included in a book of Bueker School Record . Read the descriptions then negotiate within your team to determine which member has the qualities to best fulfill the responsibilities of each role. Click here for a form to give to your teacher.

Photo Journalist Your job is to take pictures of the record setter/breaker to be included on the page. After you have a few pictures for the book page, download the pictures and place them in your team file.	Journalist Your job is to write a description of the activity that was completed to break or set the record. Type the description in Microsoft Word and save it in your team folder.
Biographer Your job is to interview the record setter/breaker. Create a list of questions to ask the record setter. Find out biographical information that can be included about the person. Type the description in Microsoft Word and save it in your team folder.	Award Creator Your job is to use Microsoft Publisher to create an award (certificate) to be presented to the record setter/breaker. You will also present your award to the winner at a special ceremony.

After each team member has completed their job, the photo journalist, journalist, and biographer should put their work together to create one page in Microsoft Word.

When the page is ready, let your teacher know so it can be included in the Book of Bueker School Records. At the end of your work time, each member should complete a team work scoring guide and turn it in to your teacher.