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 Teachers Page  Inspiration Mind Map -    Lesson Plan 1: Research - Lesson Plan 2: Preparation - Lesson Plan 3: Making the Comic - Lesson Plan 4: Presentation - Mind Mapping Worksheets - Health Quest Rubric - The aim of this Webquest, is to give students a fun and stimulating way to increase their knowledge and understanding of Different Safety Aspects, in the Health Learning Area. This unit of work is very technology based and aims to allow students to not only research, and safety topic on their own, but to also use various technologies to create two resources (in the form of a Comic Strip and Crucial Facts sheet), that will be used to teach their peers about their Safety Aspect. The Unit uses the Learning Tool of a Jigsaw, to enhance learning. This Learning style is a very common tool used by educators that subscribe to the Social Constructivist Learning Theory, as it allows students to scaffold each others learning,a nd to engage withe the material as they will be required to teach the material to their peers. It ias also very a very useful tool to help build students self confidence. This tool was the most useful to us in making this Unit of work, as it alowd us to have the students look into a range of different Safety Aspects, so that at the end of the unit they will hopefully be able to see the interrelation of aspects, and common themes accross the Safety Aspects, rather than be confined to focussin on just one Safety type. We feel that this makes for a more interesting and stimulating unit of work for the studentsm, and will ensure they really engage in the sharing of information at the end of the unit. To assess this Unit of Work, We would be using The Rubric included on the Evaluation page. We will be looking not only at the students finished Comic, and Crucial Factrs sheet to assess, but Also Observational, and anecdotal notes made over the unit, Peer Evaluations students have completed, and Student Reflections in their Journal. At the beginning of the Unit of Work students are required to make a Mind Map on their Safety Aspect with their Expert Group. The Students finished products, as well as comments made in the Class disscussion will be compared with this initial mind map, to see how students knowledge of their topics have grown, and deepened throughout the unit of work.