The book Twenty-One Balloons is about a man trying to fly around the world in a balloon. This daredevil is Professor William Sherman. As this book goes on, disaster turns up for Professor Sherman. He flies straight onto the tip of a small island known as Krakatoa. He crashed here while he was soaring through the Pacific Ocean. On this island he learns unremarkable secrets and a whole new life style. There is unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and amazing balloon inventions. Yet Professor Sherman must live there forever because the citizen of this area does not want him to reveal their secrets. Then a volcano erupts and the island must be evacuated! Will Professor Sherman ever make it out alive?
INTRODUCTION
By completing this quest, the students will learn how to navigate the Internet. Also the quest will increase their comprehension of the book Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois. The genre of the book Twenty- One Balloons is realistic fiction. The students will be looking for research information on the island of Krakatoa. If you succeed you will then become a billionaire because you have discovered the hidden treasure of Krakatoa. But to do so you must complete the crossword puzzle. The developers of this site are. A. Palmer and K. Shah for Mrs. Roberts class of Nova Middle School.
LEARNING ADVICE
The study skill that helped us the most in comprehending and interpreting the text was selective underlining. We have included it in our quest. When you do selective underlining you read the text and underline important things in the text, that you think will help you to answer the question. After you underline, you write why this section is important.
Conclusion
This webquest was made for the purpose of understanding the book a little better. We think it really helped understand the book more. By making the task and designing the webquest made us feel as if we were the authors of this book.
Our favorite part of the webquest was putting the graphics and making the task challenging for the person doing it. Then again the hard part was getting information on the topic the game was based on because the harder the task was the more work we had to do.
So in the end we think this webquest was a good experienced, and also we learned something new that we though we would ever learn, making a webquest!
TASK
The requirements of this web-based activity are; Computer with Internet access, and a printer. This activity can be done solo or in groups of two or three.
QUEST
The goal in this quest is for you to do the following, 1.) Complete the crossword puzzle on the book Twenty-One Balloons at the bottom of the page. Then when you have completed it go the top of the page and check your answers. 2.) Complete the game located at the top of the page. For the game you should first read and selective underline the informational links. Then you should read the questions and click on the answer you think is right. If your right you will continue on, if you are wrong use the back button to go to the previous question. 3.) You must take the information gather from selective underlining the links and create a T-chart based on the difference of what the book Twenty-One Balloons said about the island and want the links said. Good Luck!!!
