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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict as a pilot? 
  • This was the first war where warfare also came from the skies. What was it like to be a pilot, fighting the war from hundreds of feet above the battlefields and villages.
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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 pilot 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 be a pilot during this conflict?"

      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.
    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/pilot_wq.html]

    Now turn this sheet over and begin your webquest

    Visit these sites:

    Set #1: overview

    The Royal Flying Corps
    follow all of the various links in the article
    [more fun if you are equipped for sound.]

    Zeppelins: not all pilots flew airplanes

    View 8 images from each of the following sites:

    Allied Aircraft and Equipment

    Central Powers Aircraft and Equipment

    NOTES:

     

    Set #2: aces

    Manfred von Richthofen, The Red Baron

    Read the intro and (1) Manfred von Richthofen, My First English Victim, just below the introduction

    Eddie Rickenbacker

     

    American Ace

    optional sites:

    Aces of World War I: Aces can be viewed by nationality

    NOTES:

     

    Set #3: strategies

    The American Air Service in the Great War: Part II: The Air Service at St. Mihiel

    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 pilot?

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