The Task

Everglades WebQuest

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The Task

HELLO EXPLORERS! Here are the following steps you will have to complete on your journey through the Everglades:

Task 1

Starting the Journey:
Explorers, your first task is to click on the website below to learn about the five main habitats found in the Everglades. Next, on a sheet of paper, write down the main habitats and list the animals that reside in in each one.You will then use that information to answer a few questions found on the word document listed below the first link.

Habitats and Animals

Assignment 1

Task 2

Now that you have completed the first task and learned about the different plants and animals found in the five main habitats of the Everglades it is time to move on to the next task. Explorers, you have now reached the point of your journey where you will learn about the controversy over restoring the Everglades. To complete this task click on the link below to watch a video clip about the Everglades, then click on the second link to complete a few questions based on this video clip. Good luck explorers!

Everglades Video Clip

Video Quiz

Task 3

Explorers you are nearing the end of your journey! So if you have made it this far, GOOD JOB! The following are a few games to make sure that you have really, really mastered everything there is to know about the Everglades. Click on the following links to proceed to these games.

Games about the Everglades

Word Search

Tasks connected to Standards:

Processes that Shape the Earth
Standard 2:
The student understands the need for protection of the
natural systems on Earth. (SC.D.2.2)
1.knows that using, recycling, and reducing the use
of natural resources improve and protect the
quality of life.

The students portrayed this standard when they watched the video on the Everglades restoration and learned what they needed to do to help restore the Everglades such as recycling. They also learned what it takes to restore the Everglades and the importance of preserving the quality of life for that vital ecosystem.

How Living Things Interact with
Their Environment
Standard 1:
The student understands the competitive,
interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in the
environment. (SC.G.1.2)
1.knows ways that plants, animals, and protists
interact.
2.knows that living things compete in a climatic
region with other living things and that structural
adaptations make them fit for an environment.

In the first task that the students learned the different types of plants and animals for each habitat in the ecosystem which helped them understand how the plants and animals interact in each ecosystem and all together the plants and animals complete their ecosystem.

Standard 2:
The student understands the consequences of using
limited natural resources. (SC.G.2.2)
3.understands that changes in the habitat of an
organism may be beneficial or harmful.

The students learned what happens when something harmful happens to a habitat as they saw with the habitats found in the Everglades and what it takes to restore them.