American History

A WebQuest for 10th Grade (Vietnam War)

Designed by
Breena McCool
bmccool@heidelberg.edu/
Brittany Kreitzburg
bkreitzb@heidelberg.edu/

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Introduction
Dear Students,

For your class assignment you all will be searching for what happened during the Vietnam Conflict which happened between 1965 and 1973.  There will be a series of questions that you will have to look up and find.  This exercise is to help broaden your minds about this conflict and a better understanding of what happened on both sides of the conflict.
We will provide you with websites to help you get to your answers.  Remember to have fun!!!!

Brittany and Breena

 



                                  The Task
Here are the questions for which you need to answer:

1. What started the whole conflict?

2.  Who was involved in the War?  Were other countries allied with America?

3.)  What was Agent Orange?  What were the long term affects on soldiers exposed to Agent Orange, if any?

4.) Who was the president of North Vietnam at the time?  Also who was the president of South Vietnam?- What happened to the President of South Vietnam and who replaced him as leader?

5.)  How many Casualties were there from the American side, South Vietanames, North Vietnames?  How did America honor those who have fallen?

6.) What year did John F. Kennedy order more help for the South Vietnames government in its war against Vietcong Guerillas?

7.)  Who was the Vietnames communist or Vietcong commanded by?

8.)  So go to the Vietnam War Stories link and choose a story.  Read the story, and write a paragraph about how you feel about the story.  Include parts that you think is necessary to help prove why it meant what it did to you.

9.)  What happened during the protest at Kent State?  What year was the incident? Who was called in to settle the protests? 

10)  When was the Vietnam Wall put up?  How are the rows figured, are they put by day, month, group?  How long is the wall?  Who designed/built the wall?

11.)  For the last excercise I want you to think about what it was like to be a soldier over in Vietnam for months to years, then coming home to a country that did not support you.  How did it make you feel, and think about what it did to the real soldiers who were over there?  Think about the young soldiers who are over in Iraq right now, most of them pretty close to your age.  How would you feel coming back if this were you?  Go through the We Were Soldiers web site and look up the different stories and biographical information that is provied and write a paragraph or two to summarize.





The Process

To accomplish the task, what steps should the learners go through? Use the numbered list format in your web editor to automatically number the steps in the procedure. Describing this section well will help other teachers to see how your lesson flows and how they might adapt it for their own use, so the more detail and care you put into this, the better. Remember that this whole document is addressed to the student, however, so describe the steps using the second person.

  1. First you'll be assigned to a team of 3 students.
  2. For questions 1,2 you will go to the History Channels website.  We have provided the link so just answer the questions?  For question 1 and 2 go to the link below: http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=119120
  3. For question number 3 use this link to get the definition: http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=70735
  4. Once you are done with questions 1,2,3 move on to questions 4 and 5 which is the Vietnam War site.  Which we have provided the link to. For question 4 you will have to go under the History section of the webpage.  http://www.vietnamwar.com/WarHistory.htm
  5. For question 5 go back the  home page and look under Casualties.                                     http://www.vietnamwar.com/CasualtiesComp.htm
  6. For questions 6 and 7 you will be heading to the pbs site.  which the link has been provided:    http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html 
  7. For the last question (8) you will go to a special site were Vietnam stories are written down.  You will choose one off the link: http://www.war-stories.com/
  8. For question (9) you are going back to the history channels website but for the Kent State site:  http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=95561
  9. For question (10) you will again go back to the History Channel website but for information on the Vietnam War Memorial:   http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=119119 
  10. For question (11) go to the We Were Soldiers website and just look around:  http://www.weweresoldiers.com/splash.html


Evaluation

Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated. Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual grades.

Exemlary

4

Accomplishing

3

Developing

2

Beginning

1

Score

 

Answers given for the material

 
Understanding of material.
Understanding of most of the material with a few errors.
Seems to be a bit brief. Little bit of uncerstanding of the material.
Too brief on understanding of material.  Unclear in what was asked.
4

 

   Sentence Structure

 

 
Clear and corect sentences. Very few or no mistakes in grammar.
Few mistakes in clearity and grammar.  Overall good.
Some mistakes, Needs work on Grammar. Overall okay work
Many mistake on both clearity and grammar.  Not well done
4

 

Paragraph Structure

 

 
Flows well together.  Understandable by the reader. 
Flows together but there are minor mistakes that makes it a lower grade.
More mistakes that could have been looked over.  Needs work.
Not organized as well as it should be.  Many errors that should have been looked over.
4

 

Overall neatness and organization 

 
Looks as though you put foreword the effort to make it look nice.
 Organized well.  Few and little mistakes.
Looks less organized and neat then it should have been.
Looks like you just throw this together before class started.

    4
Overall work effort
 Used all the time that was provided to you both in class and out.  Your project shows you worked hard
 Worked well on the project.  Spent most of your time workin on it to have little errors.
 Worked on the project when you felt like it and looks like you rushed to finish it.
 Hardly spent any time on the project and just throw it together to get a grade.
      4




Conclusion

While doing this excercise we hope that you have learned a little bit more about the War in Vietnam.  This excercise was to help broaden your horizon to what went on not only in Vietnam but what when on in the home front.  We hope that you have learned a great deal by doing this exercise.  This excercise was to show you what the brave men and women did to serve their country over seas and then come home to a country that shunned them.

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Other Resources

The image of the Vietnam War Memorial is brought to you by: http://www.vietnamvets.com/

List any books and other analog media that you used as information sources as well.


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