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Our understanding of the project is that we need to make a web quest that incorporates ICT to encourage inquiry orientated problem based learning. To do this our web quest will be centered around the theme of a class bake sale. Students will be guided through a process of sourcing ingredients, pricing, calculating nutritional percentages, calculating portion size and volume and then creating their own recipe for the fair. The ICT resources that we are considering to use are; a nutrition calculator, online shopping stores, label and nutritional value sticker creators, excel spread sheets and online recipes.

 Prior Knowledge:

 This project is designed as a revision exercise. Therefore it is expected that students will have a firm grasp on concepts such as fractions, percentages and profit.

Links to constructivism: In this exercise students are given the freedom to choose their own flavour of pie, research and decide which supermarket will be the best to buy from and decide how much to charge for their pie. As well as this the exercise has the final goal of baking and selling a pie to fundraise for the whole class. These factors tie in with constructivist theories and they give the learner a sense of responsibility and independence within the learning process. According to Vygotski's theory learning is achieved most effectively in a social, collaborative setting. This is one of the reasons we chose to make the activity a group project and used the survey in the first lesson so students could have class feedback. The use of the nutritional guide, supermarket websites and profit calculator are all things that aim at supplying the students with a meaningful experience that they can later use in real life situations.

Forward planning document.



Tools selected and why.



Webquest rubric.

