The Process Part 1:  Research on the Composers and Time Periods Teacher will assign groups and choose team captains. The group will choose a time period and a composer. The teams will begin to research by reading articles, watching videos, and visiting websites. The team will collectively complete a worksheet to collect facts for planning the theme park.

Part 2:  Planning the Theme Park  (The following tasks will be divided among you and your team members):
 

Artists Choose musical artists to represent your composer and perform in your theme park Design costumes for the performers that were present during the time period in which your composer lived

 

Music Choose ten different musical selections to be used as background music throughout your theme park Make sure that the music chosen relates to your composer and time period

 

Food Plan a restaurant or food stand that features the type of food or drink that was a favorite during the time period that your composer lived  Name your restaurant and design a menu  Design costumes for the employees to wear

 

Shops Plan a souvenir shop that carries reproductions of instruments that were used during your time period and musical recordings of your composer  To represent your shop, create a catalog of the items that you will sell to send home with customers who would like to buy at a later time

 

Rides and Attractions Develop park rides or activities that creatively use musical terms and ideas Name your park attractions after musical terms, or titles of songs that your composer has written

 

Design Create a blueprint or 3D model of your region of the theme park on poster board, paper, video, computer or any other creative method that you think of Submit these ideas to your teacher before doing this to make sure that it meets his/her standards

 

Presentation When all parts of the task are complete, plan a presentation to your class to convince them to fund this theme park Consider using any media you have available, wearing costumes, role playing, etc.   Make it exciting and fun

Evaluation Your project will be evaluated on the following criteria:

	5-Exemplary	3-Accomplished	1-Developing	0-Beginning
Group Work Habits	You always listened to your group and offered suggestions.  You completed your part of the project.	You usually listened to your group and gave your own suggestions.  Your part of the project was completed.	You sometimes listened to your group. You were bossy when giving your own suggestions.  Your part of the project was late and incomplete.	You were not able to work with the group.
Personal Work Habits	You were always ready for class with materials.  You met each deadline given.	You were usually prepared for class.  You missed a deadline.	You were sometimes prepared for class.  You missed more than one deadline.	You were rarely prepared for class.  You missed many deadlines.
Worksheet Content	You answered all of the questions.  You put a great deal of effort into researching and learning about your composer and time period.	You did not answer all of the questions.  You put some effort in researching and learning about your composer and time period.	You did not answer all of the questions.  You put very little effort into researching and learning about your composer and time period.	You did not answer the questions asked.  You did not learn anything about your composer.
Blueprints/3D Model	Very neat and accurate.  You obviously spent a lot of time working on this part of the quest.  It contains all the information necessary for your theme park.	Somewhat neat and accurate.  You spent some time on this part of the quest.  It contains most of the information necessary for your theme park.	Could use some work.  You spent a very small amount of time on this part of the quest.  It contains little of the information necessary for your theme park.	Little or no time was spent on this part of your quest.  It does not contain all of the information necessary for your theme park.
Presentation	You were very creative and exciting and seemed to captivate your audience into coming to your theme park.	You were somewhat creative in your presentation, but you needed to captivate your audience more.	You had little creativity in your presentation.	You had very little or no creativity in your presentation.

 Total point possible = 20
20-18 pts. = A      17-16 pts. = B      15-14 pts. = C      13-12 pts. = D      11 & below = F

I very much enjoyed designing this WebQuest.  From my experience, the students have been very successful in completing this project.  This webquest was created by Kelly Hiveley, K-12 Vocal Music Instructor at Warren School.