The document outlines a webquest activity for students to research the topic of same-sex marriage using online newspapers from Argentina, the US, and the UK. Students will work in groups to research the topic, process the information, and create presentations and reports. They will be assessed based on metrics like the quality and relevance of information collected, application of reading comprehension and editing techniques, use of multimedia and cooperation within their groups. The goal is for students to practice skills across various subjects through an authentic project-based learning experience.

3. The use of technology and second languages , mainly English, make it necessary to work with and for all other subjects of the school syllabus in order to be update literate decoders of the present reality either local or global. As online newspapers are suitable channels and mirrors through which all that happens is depicted ,students hold a debate to decide which relevant topics need investigation and analysis ..

5. As part of a whole year syllabus .students will seek for information in foreign and local newspapes about current outstanding issues which have either scientific of social relevance. Students are instructed to work in relay all through the experience so that at the end of the year they have practised working in all tasks involved in the master project based plan that encompasses many subjects.

9. Urls (website addresses) of online Argentine, American and English newspaper s http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/USNewspapers/index.htm http://www.buenosairesherald.com/ http://www.online newspapers .com/argentin.htm Opera browser with voice plug-in to improve pronunciation and listening Pop-up bilingual and monolingual. dictionaries

12. Rubrics for assessing webquest DIMENSION INDICATORS GRADING INFO SEARCH DATA PROCESSING MULTIMEDIA USAGE COOPERATIVE WORK METACOGNITVE LEARNING SKILLS Excellent 10 Students collect plenty of relevant informative samples Students apply accurate and varied reading comprehension and data edition techniques. Students produce very good paragraph formatting, files and images insertion, creation of hyperlinks, use of dictionaries. Students enthusiastically apply cooperative learning strategies ,scaffolding peers and accepting being scaffolded by peers and teacher with very good use of resources and time allocation. Students apply permanent sound metacognitive skills writing notes and readjusting learning variables. Very good 9 8 Students collect enough relevant informative samples Students very good apply reading comprehension and data edition techniques. Students produce good paragraph formatting, files and images insertion, creation of hyperlinks, use of dictionaries. Students apply cooperative learning strategies, scaffolding and accepting being scaffolded by peers and teacher with very good use of resources and time allocation. Students apply permanent metacognitive skills writing notes and readjusting learning variables. Good 7 6 5 (students who get this mark have the right to a make up ) Students collect informative samples of relative relevance and / or amount. Students apply acceptable reading comprehension and data edition techniques.. Students produce good paragraph formatting, files and images insertion, creation of hyperlinks, use of dictionaries. with some mistakes or omissions, Students apply cooperative learning strategies sometimes scaffolding and accepting being scaffolded by peers and teacher with monitored use of resources and time allocation. Students apply frequent metacognitive skills writing notes and readjusting learning variables with the aid of monitors. Below standards 4 3 2 1 (Students who get these marks are considered especially so as to include them in next stages of the Master project with readjustment of all possible variables to get better results) Students do not collect enough informative samples or lack relevance. Students apply inaccurate or limited number of reading comprehension and data edition techniques. Students produce poor paragraph formatting, files and images insertion, creation of hyperlinks or/ and their use of dictionaries is scanty or improper. Students do not commit themselves to applying cooperative learning strategies .Scaffolding and /or accepting being scaffolded by peers and /or teacher is infrequent .Their use of resources and time allocation .is questionable. Students very seldom apply metacognitive skills or write notes or readjust learning variables .

15. Credits Prof. Stella Maris Berdaxagar UNLpam Gral Pico La Pampa Argentina June/August 2010 Instructor :Aurelia García