Flowers for Algernon

Web Quest Includes:

Understanding of: Text; Multiple Intelligence; Animal Experimentation

Activities:  Journaling; Publication; Create a Game

You can click on any of the above links to copy and past a format to include in a file you create in Microsoft Word.  Save your file as classperiodLastNameFirstinitial.doc 

Example:   1LyonsS.doc

Save all your work on disk.  You can email your journals, as well as print your pages out.

Click on button to create Newspapers, Flyers, Brochures

Part One:     After reading each progress report in Flowers for Algernon, you are to make a e-journal entry that includes: 

1.  Summary of the events 

2.  A summary sketch using pictures, photos, and clipart on the internet.

3.  Your personal reaction and opinions to what you read. 

4. A prediction  about what you think is likely to happen within the next reading and explain what you base your prediction from the text.

Part Two   Examine the seven intelligences by clicking on the word links below and take notes in your journal.  Then click on the yellow buttons and take the surveys to determine your own intelligences.  How can what you learned can affect your education? Apply what you have learned about Multiple Intelligences by creating a learning plan that will help you be successful in all of your classes.  You may also choose to create a board game about Multiple Intelligences as your final project.

Gardner's Seven Intelligences are described in more detail in the following links :

Linguistic Intelligence
Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Spatial Intelligence
Bodily Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence

Part  Three   Examine  some arguments for and against animal testing by visiting the following sites, then write one convincing argument for and one against animal testing. Both arguments must have at least five details that support it.

Websites In Favor of Animal Testing

anzccart.rsnz.govt.nz/text/benefits.html

http://www.aalas.org/resources/public.asp

http://www.amprogress.org/site/c.jrLUK0PDLoF/b.913145/k.CBB4/Home.htm

http://www.kids4research.org/

Websites NOT In Favor of Animal Testing

http://www.animalliberationfront.com/

http://www.stopanimaltests.com/index.aspx

http://www.ohsukillsprimates.com/against.htm

http://www.animaland.org/framesets/realissues_frameset.asp

Additional Activities and Web Sites to Visit

 Create Your Own Board Games

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/gameboard.htm

                Rorschach Test                      IQ Test           The Brain

                         Take a Rorschach Test                                        Take an "IQ" Test  

Assessment

Quick IQ Test                                                        Review Game  Flowers for Algernon 

Flowers for Algernon Test                                  Flowers for Algernon Rubric