EDUC4105

This site was rated highly by our expert panel, for more details, read on.

Efficiency
The task is large, but gives a deep understanding of the uses of logarithmic scales. The process link ensures clear understanding and focus on the task. A weakness of the webquest is that there are many tasks and a lot of reaearch for two people.
Link to logs
Technofile
The strengths of this site were good links to next page from the bottom of current page and good use of pictures, fonts and colours. However the tables could have been in excel to do the graphs and the worksheet template could be on word so students could type straight in.
Altitudinists
The task really only required the gathering of information. There wasn’t any synthesis of ideas though some degree of thought and problem solving would have to be done to work out scales to plot different size objects on a sheet of paper. The task also requires the student to connect logarithms to uses in the real world.
From the viewpoint of the NSW Syllabus.
This webquest addresses how to represent a wide ranging set of data and phenomina that changes logarithmically on a easy to plot and read graph. Data is represented on both linear scales and log scales and the advantages of a log scale are discovered by the student. There is good use of technology with great links that explore scales with interesting and relevant examples, from size of bacteria to diatances in space. There are no direct links to outcomes as it is American, so some localising of the aims would be good from a syllabus perspective. Still, a good webquest.

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