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As a matter of fact…or is it? A webquest focusing on fact and opinion using spiders as a topic for inquiry By: Janet Pages

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Page 1: As a matter of fact…or is it?

As a matter of fact…or is it?A webquest focusing on fact and opinion

using spiders as a topic for inquiry

By: Janet Pages

Page 2: As a matter of fact…or is it?

Introduction

How do you feel about spiders. Some of you will say “they’re scary”, and others will say “ they’re cool”. It's OK for one person to think one thing about spiders, and another to think something different. These are opinions - what people think. We also know basic facts about spiders. For example, spiders have 8 legs.

Of all the sentences and statements you've been told and have read throughout your life, do you think you would ever know the difference between the ones that were facts and the ones that were opinions?

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Task In groups of two you will use the World Wide

Web to locate information about spiders. You will learn the difference between fact and opinion.

You and your partner will create a fact and opinion chart about spiders using several of the websites and printouts provided on this webquest.

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ProcessStudents are to log into the internet and search for the following ten websites: 1. http://mrsdell.org/gr2/factopinion.html

Fact and Opinion key words. Do not use the links. They are outdated2. http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/factopin.pdf

Print out this link for the fact opinion graphic organizer you will complete in the evaluation.3. http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/

PBS website with a fun fact and opinion game based on the Arthur series4. http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html

Fact and opinion quiz- Complete toward the end of the webquest experience.5. http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/factopinion.html

Super teacher worksheets. There are four different links to choose from with printable fact and opinion activities6. http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/factoropinion.shtml

Fact and opinion quiz that is scored on the spot. A good review

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Process – More websites

7. http://www.tooter4kids.com/Spiders/Spiders.htmGreat learning link about spiders. Many places to click

and learn.8. http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/index.htm

More Spider facts. The links include photos, facts, and games.9. http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php#

The American Museum of Natural History. Quick link with more unusual facts.10. http://www.abcteach.com/free/f/factoropinion_food.pdf

A printable activity that asks food related fact and opinion questions.

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Evaluation

Each student will complete a rubric about their partner.Beginning

1Develop

ing2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary4

Score

Working in a

Partnership Rarely

listens to, shares with, or supports

the efforts of others. 

Usually is not a good

team player. 

Often listens

to, shares

with and supports

the efforts of others,

but sometimes is not a good team

player.

Usually listens to,

shares with and

supports the efforts of others.  Does not

cause "waves" in the group. 

Almost always

listens to, shares

with and supports

the efforts of others. 

Tries to keep

partnership working

well.

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Evaluation

Each student will be graded separately on a completed fact and opinion graphic organizer.

Use this link to print the graphic organizer

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/factopin.pdf

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Conclusion

After the children researched the ten sites provided to them on the World Wide Web by the teacher, they should be able to easily read a statement or text and determine whether the information is "a matter of fact... or opinion.“

You've done a SPIDERIFIC job in researching, forming an opinion, and sharing with others creatively! 

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Books for Children

Fiction

1. Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (An Owlet Book)by Gerald McDermott

2. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)

by E.B. White 3. Diary of a Spider

by Doreen Cronin 4. The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales

(BookFestival) by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst 5. The Spider and the Fly

by Mary Howitt

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Books for Children

Non-Fiction

1. About Arachnids: A Guide for Children (About...)by Cathryn Sill

2. DK Readers: Spiders' Secrets (Level 3: Reading Alone)

by DK Publishing 3. Spiders Have Fangs: And other amazing facts about arachnids (I Didn't Know That) by Claire Llewellyn 4. Spinning Spiders (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

by Melvin Berger

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Credits Please see the links in the ‘Process’ section I used two webquests as a guide in

creating my own1. Where Do Pigs Belong? by Teresa Pfeifer,

George Davison Elementary2. As a Matter of Fact…or is it? by Teresa

Hernández-Acosta, Shenandoah Elementary School

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StandardsStandards FLORIDA SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS: LA.A.2.1.4 knows strategies to use to

discover whether information presented in a text is true, including asking others and checking another source

LA.A.2.1.5 uses simple materials of the reference system to obtain information

LA.A.2.2.6 recognizes the difference between fact and opinion presented in a text