Teacher Page

Welcome! This webquest is designed to help your students learn about Fair Use laws and how it relates to their individual use and creation of technology. On this page, as a teacher, you'll find basic information on what this webquest can provide for your students.

Grade Level: This webquest was designed with 8th graders in mind, but could easily be used in a 7th or 9th grade classroom. 

Subject: This webquest, as you may have noticed from the rubric and requirements, is also math related (see content standards below). If you teach a different subject, but would still like to use this webquest, just cut out these aspects of the project.

Benefits:

Through this webquest your students will have the opportunity to learn about Fair Use, see some of the pros and cons that have been voiced about law, discuss the aspects of what constitutes fair use, and apply their new knowledge to some scenarios. Students will also work collaboratively through this process and in creating a visual display for the classroom. It also provides the benefits described in the visual above.

Considerations:

Apart from the math consideration (whether you wish to include this aspect or not), there are a few other things you might consider when using this webquest:

• Limit students to 1 or 2 computers: this will help students to collaborate more instead of working individually on their own separate devices.
• While there should be no need for students to use other resources apart from those provided, it is still a good idea to monitor students computer use.
• The completion of this webquest will likely take students around two/three days (one for investigating the resources, one/two for creating their project). This is an estimate and students may need longer. Keep this in mind.

Standards

• Math Standards (from Common Core)
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.3 Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.


• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.4 Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.

• Tech Standards (from ISTE)
• 6-8.RI.1. use a variety of digital resources to locate information
• 6-8.DC.1. provide accurate citations when referencing information sources
• 6-8.DC.2. discuss issues related to acceptable and responsible use of technology (e.g., privacy, security, copyright, plagiarism, viruses, file-sharing)
• 6-8.DC.3. discuss the consequences related to unethical use of information and communication technologies.