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Introduction
The Kellogg's Learning Quest
is an opportunity for students to investigate
and learn on the Internet, to collaborate
and work together in small groups, as a class
and individually to investigate health and
fitness in a fun and creative way.
This Learning Quest is
developed around the theme of Healthy Kids … Healthy
Future. It has been developed to allow exploration
of the 5 ways to health and fitness guidelines
that have been developed by Kellogg. As we all know that healthy
lifestyle is a crucial part of a long, happy
and healthy life, the learning quest will
help challenge students to explain why we
need healthy kids for a healthy future.
The Learning Quest will
transform students into different roles/characters.
Students will need to conduct research into
healthy lifestyles to help them develop their
chosen role. Students will be challenged
to explain why we need Healthy Kids for a
Healthy Future.
This Learning Quest should
take approximately four weeks. This should
allow adequate time to research information,
discuss information and create activities
and tasks.
Throughout the Learning
Quest process students will work individually,
in small groups and as a class to develop
ideas, issues, form predictions and solve
problems. Students also have the opportunity
to create and present a multimedia project
on the computer using software such as MS
PowerPoint, Inspiration, Hyperstudio, develop
a movie or publish a website to deliver their
views to the rest of the class. Other alternatives
include drama, music and dance.
Learning Quests should
involve open ended questions that lead students
to think about different issues and, hopefully,
develop fresh ideas. They should also perplex
students while scaffolding their thinking.
Before thinking deeply about the question,
students need to have a good understanding
of the topic. This is the main purpose of
the Knowledge Hunt and Background Activities.
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Scaffolding Tools
For more information on scaffolding student learning check:
Reception
scaffolds
These are designed to assist the learner in gathering information from sources,
focus attention on what is important and help the learner organize and record
what they perceive.
Transformation
scaffolds
These assist learners in transforming the information they've received into
some other form. They involve imposing structure on information, while reception
scaffolds help learners perceive structure already in the information.
Production
scaffolds
These assist learners in producing something observable, such as a publication
or presentation, that conveys what they've learned.
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