Introduction
Hello dear students!
Welcome to this webquest. During this project you're going to learn about a specific British, American or Australian sport.
Challenge yourself to become an expert on your subject and to create the best movie ever made about that specific sport.
During the last lesson we'll watch each other's videos, mark each other's videos and reflect on this product. You'll be graded on your final product, the subassignments, and your collaboration.
Let's get started - on the next pages you'll find all the information you need.
Good luck!
Learning aims
At the end of this project, you:
- have made a video about a British, American or Australian sport (see further on the website for the list of sports to choose from).
- have read one text about the chosen sport.
- have seen a documentary about your chosen sport.
- have written a short report about your chosen sport.
- can clearly explain the rules of your chosen sport.
- have documented which new vocabulary you have learnt.
- know at least three English sport-related idioms/sayings.
The final product
Rubric
Group rubric
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3 points
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2 points
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1 point
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0 points
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Video
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The video is 5 minutes long.
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The video is 6-7 minutes long.
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The video is shorter than 4 minutes.
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The video is shorter than 3 minutes.
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The video has an introduction of approximately 30 seconds.
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The video has an introduction but is shorter than 30 seconds.
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The video has no introduction.
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The video explains clearly the history of the sport.
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The video explains the history of the sport but it is not complete and/or inconsistent.
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The video explains the history of the sport.
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The video doesn’t explain the history of the sport.
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The video explains clearly the rules of the game.
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The video
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There is an attempt to explain the rules of the game but it leaves the watcher confused.
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The rules of the game aren’t explained.
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The video ends with a quiz question for ‘the people at home’ which is linked to a sport-related idiom.
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The video ends with a quiz question for ‘the people at home’ but is not linked to a sport-related idiom.
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The video doesn’t end with a quiz question but somewhere in the video there is attention for one or more sport-related idioms.
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The video doesn’t end with a quiz question and there is no sport-related idiom to find in the whole video.
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The video catches the watcher’s attention the whole team. It is interesting to watch.
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Most parts of the video are interesting and/or fun to watch. Some parts are not.
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Some parts of the video are interesting and/of fun to watch, but most parts are not.
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The video is rather boring to watch. There is no interesting part whatsoever.
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Storyboard
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The storyboard matches all the scenes of the video.
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The storyboard matches most of the scenes of the video.
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It is clear the storyboard is about the video but the scenes do not match at all.
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The storyboard doesn’t match any scene OR there is no storyboard.
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It consists of images/photos combined with text.
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It consists of either images/photos or text.
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There is no storyboard.
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Report
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The report gives a clear understanding of the history of the sport.
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The report gives an understanding of the history but there are some important bits missing.
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The report is an inconsistent story giving some information about the history.
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There is no information about the history of the sport.
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The report describes in detail the rules of the sport and where it is played.
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The report describes the rules of the sport but not where it is played.
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There is little information about the rules of the sport OR about where it is played.
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There is no information about the rules of the sport.
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The report consists of 150 words (+/- 10%)
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The report is more than 150 words (+/- 10%) but less than 200.
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The report is less than 150 (+/- 10%) or more than 200.
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Individual rubric
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Routinely provides useful ideas when participating in the group and in classroom discussion. A definite leader who contributes a lot of effort.
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Usually provides useful ideas when participating in the group and in classroom discussion. A strong group member who tries hard!
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Sometimes provides useful ideas when participating in the group and in classroom discussion. A satisfactory group member who does what is required.
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Rarely provides useful ideas when participating in the group and in classroom discussion. May refuse to participate.
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Almost always listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others. Tries to keep people working well together.
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Usually listens to, shares, with, and supports the efforts of others. Does not cause \"waves\" in the group.
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Often listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others, but sometimes is not a good team member.
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Rarely listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others. Often is not a good team player.
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Routinely monitors the effectiveness of the group, and makes suggestions to make it more effective.
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Routinely monitors the effectiveness of the group and works to make the group more effective.
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Occasionally monitors the effectiveness of the group and works to make the group more effective.
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Rarely monitors the effectiveness of the group and does not work to make it more effective.
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Provides work of the highest quality.
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Provides high quality work.
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Provides work that occasionally needs to be checked/redone by other group members to ensure quality.
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Provides work that usually needs to be checked/redone by others to ensure quality.
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| Summary |
The summaries are written in full, grammatically correct sentences. |
The summaries are written in full sentences with a few grammatical mistakes. |
The summaries are mostly written in full sentences but with many grammatical mistakes. |
The summaries are full of grammatical mistakes and/or is not written in full sentences. |
What to hand in?
You hand in the following items:
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As a group
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Individual
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The storyboard
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Summary of text
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The video
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Summary of documentary
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The written review
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List with new vocabulary which you learnt during this project.
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Your sport-related idioms + explanation
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What to do?
Step 1 - choose a topic
Topics to choose from:
Curling
Cricket
American Football
Rugby
Basketball
Ice hockey
Lacrosse
Baseball
Step 2 - devide the tasks and make a planning
Planning
Example planning
Thursday 19-01
- choose topic
- look up information about the topic
- devide tasks
- look for documentary
- look for 1 text pp
- start reading and make summary of texts
At home
- read each other's summaries
- watch documentary
- make summary about documentary
Thursday 26-01
Start preparations for video
- make a storyboard
Write a report
- include a brief explanation of your sport: its history, how and where it is played, if there are important (international) games, if there are people who became famous because of this sport, etc.
Tuesday 31-01
Start filming.
Thursday 02-02
Continue filming.
Tuesday 07-02
Showing videos and grading each other´s work.
Step 3 - start reading
You can look on the English wikipedia or search on Google for information about your sport.
Make sure you find out
- what the rules are.
- what the history about the sport is.
- if there are important games (Olympics? Superbowl?)
- what the fun facts are about the sport.
- if there are people who became famous because of this sport.
- and other interesting information.
Step 4 - watch a documentary
A documentary should consist of information about the sport.
It doesn't have to an enormously long documentary, but it has to be at least 10 minutes long.
In addition, you can also watch a match or fragments of matches.
Step 5 - create your video
What should your video consist of?
You are going to make a 'Klokhuis'-like video of about 5 minutes.
It has to start with a +/- 20 seconds intro.
Then you're going to give information about the sport.
You tell as much as you can think of. You can include fragments of documentaries. You may use pictures. BUT you record your own voices under the fragments/pictures.
You include 1 sketch, as you'll also find in the Klokhuis episodes.
Your video finishes with a quiz questions where the 'people at home' can win a price when they send in the correct answer.
This should be linked to English idioms about sport.
What should your storyboard consist of?
A storyboard is a document showing what you're going to tell each scene.
It could look like this:
