Blessed Sacrament School - Web Quest Project F

Ramadan

A Web Quest for 7th Grade!

George, Shelby, Dia

Introduction

You're a member of the World Culture Club at your school. Your advisor has asked you and two other students to prepare a Ramadan Festival. You will find that Ramadan is one of the most important holidays in the Islamic Religion. It is celebrated on the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. It celebrates when the Koran was given to the prophet Muhammad.

The Task

The Ramadan Festival will be held in the multi-purpose room at your school. Set up the different stations for the students to visit and experience. Each student will have approximately one hour and thirty minutes to complete all of the stations.

The Process

To accomplish each task, you will design stations. The stations will include:

Find recipes: The student will need to find several different recipes that the Islamic eat during Ramadan. He or She will need to include colorful pictures of the recipe they have chosen.

Students will need to find and search traditional clothing during Ramadan and dress a doll in this way.

Your visitor will play a game that you have set up for them or they can create their own version of an Islamic game relating to Ramadan.

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.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4
Stated Objective or Performance	Discovered one recipe	Discovered two recipes	Discovered three recipes	Discovered four recipes
Stated Objective or Performance	Answered one question	Answered two questions	Answered three questions	Answered four questions
Stated Objective or Performance	Created one piece of clothing	Created two pieces of clothing	Created three pieces of clothing	Created four pieces of clothing
Stated Objective or Performance	Cooked one meal	Cooked two meals	Cooked three meals	Cooked four meals
Stated Objective or Performance	Draw one picture	Draw two pictures	Draw three pictures	Draw four pictures

Conclusion

Hopefully you have learned about the Middle Eastern ways of celebrating. Their clothes, food, music, and art are just examples of how many diverse cultures there are in the world today. By planning this festival, you have learned so many exciting this about the most important Islamic holiday, RAMADAN!

Credits & References

Internet

Books

World Holidays "A Watts Guide For Children"
by: Heather Moehn
Essential Middle Eastern Cooking
by: Soheila Kimberly
Celebrating Ramadan
by: Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

This Web Quest was made possible through a "Teaching with Technology" grant received by Mrs. Maria Gomez and Mrs. Barbara Blair from the North Carolina Association of Educational Communications and Technology and a grant from the National Catholic Education Association.

Based on a template from The Web Quest Page