FAIRY
TALE QUEST
A
WEBQUEST
THE TASK: Pretend you are the editor of Happily Ever After Travel and Fairy Tale News, and you have been chosen to visit different countries on the World Wide Web. You will be told exactly which countries you will visit and what you will do at each location. One important thing you will do at each country is to locate a fairy tale written in that country, read it, and write down the main characters, and the plot. As you visit each country you will be told what site to explore and what you need to research. We have made travel journals to enter our findings, thoughts, and ideas as we travel on this adventure.
YOUR FIRST VISIT IS TO
SITES: The Sensitive Map of
A Russian Tale, The Frog Princess
USE YOUR TRAVEL JOURNAL TO WRITE ENTRIES FORTHE FOLLOWING:
l. Click on to the site called The Sensitive Map of Russia
and then answer the following questions
about your travel map. What direction is
2. Click on to the site called A Russian Tale, The Frog Princess, and have an enjoyable time reading this tale. When you complete the reading remember to make an entry in your journal about the main characters, and the plot. Describe the main character using different adjectives to create a vivid picture in the mind of the person reading your journal. Tell some ways you are like this character and some ways you are different. Write a sentence to describe where the story takes place. Does this story have a similar title to another fairy tale we read?
YOUR SECOND TRIP IS TO
SITES: Map of
Nature and Climate
Japanese Fairy Tales
l. Click on to the site called Map of Japan.
Locate the four main islands of
2. Click on to the site called Nature and Climate.
Read about
3. Click on to the site called Japanese Fairy Tales. Read the four tales and then respond by writing in
your journal page titled
YOUR THIRD TRIP IS TO
SITES: The
Hans Christian Andersen List of Fairy Tales and Stories
Map of
This time you are going to get a special preview in a biographical museum that stores the collection of items and documents that tell about the life and work of the famous fairy tale writer, Hans Christian Andersen. In 1835 he published his first collection of fairy tales, followed by many others totaling 168 stories.
l. Click on to the site called The Hans Christian Andersen Museum. Read about the museum and then make entries in your travel journal that tell where the museum is located, when it was founded, and what kinds of things we would see if we visited it.
2. Click on to the site called Hans Christian Andersen List of Fairy Tales and Stories. After you have browsed through the list of fairy tales he wrote, make a journal entry by writing down at least five titles of tales you have already read or heard. Then go to our class bookshelf and find these three titles that he wrote: The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, and The Princess and the Pea. Find a comfortable spot on the beanbag chairs and read these books to yourself.
3. Enter your responses to these questions in your travel journal. How many ways can you think of to show how genuinely happy the Ugly Duckling must have been when it discovered it was a swan? What could you do if you were treated as unkindly as the Ugly Duckling? How would the story about the Emperor's clothes be different if the emperor said he saw no new clothes to wear? do you agree with the actions of the tricksters in this tale? What kind of test could you invent to see if she was the real princess in The Princess and the Pea? Can you name any other stories about a princess?
4. Click on to the site called Map of Denmark.
Locate the city in which Hans Christian Andersen was born, and write its
name in your travel journal. Write a complete thought telling where the
CONCLUSION AND SOME ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
l. You have read many interesting folk and fairy tales on your journey. Do you have one that you like the best? Use these criteria to help you decide:
a. Did I stay focused as I read the tale?
b. Was the ending a surprise, or did you guess the end?
c. Would you suggest this book to your friends?
Write the title of your favorite tale in you journal.
2. Choose one of the fairy tales you have read and make a whimsical map of what you imagine the story setting would look like. Be sure to mark where all the important events took place in the story.
3. Write your version of one of your favorite tales and put it in the form of a play. Invite two or three classmates to join you in acting out a scene for the class.
Webquest
created by PAT GABIG
Updated Last January 2005 by Trisha Armstrong