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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict as a nurse or medic? 
  • Often referred to as non-combatants, the nurses and medics were the first to be called to the battlefields for help, after the battles had begun.
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    Instructions:

    Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

    1. Discuss what it was like to be a nurse or medic during World War I, as if you were this participant.
    2. Go to your team’s worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visited [see below]
    3. Then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
    4. When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to bea nurse or medic during this conflict?"
    5. Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team’s response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question.
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    Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!
    Be sure to use your BACK button to keep returning to this site!

    [http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/medic_wq.html]

    Now turn this sheet over and begin your webquest

    Visit these sites:

    Set #1: in the field

    William Yorke Stevenson, Section No. 1,

    American Ambulance: Diary excerpts

    Read only the first entry, dated 11 July 1916, Dugny

    American Expeditionary Force [AEF]

    Casualty Handling Procedures

    NOTES:

    Set #2: nurses

    30,000 US Women were there

     

    Too few doctors...

    Volunteer Aid Detachments [items #1 - 4]

    Scottish Women's Hospital Unit [items #1 - 3]

    Florence Farmborough [items #2-7]

    NOTES:

     

    Set #3: day-to-day life for a field medic

    The American Field Ambulance Service in France

    Personal letters of a driver at the front [1916]

    please read the following sections:

    * The Preface

    * scroll down to AMERICAN AMBULANCE, June 17th and read until Saturday

    * scroll down to PONT-A-MOUSSON, July 2nd plus a little bit farther: start at the listing Saturday and stop at PONT-A-MOUSSON, July 16th

    NOTES:

    When you have completed viewing and analyzing the three sets of information, on a separate sheet of paper, synthesize the information from your notes into one statement:

    What is it like to be in a conflict as a nurse or medic?

    Remember: this is not a report about... You are to respond in the voice of your participant.