The Research On Designing And Using WebQuest In Biology Elective Subject Teaching In Senior High School

WebQuest is a novel learning method, a kind of studying basing on Internet basing on constructivism. With students being the central role and under the teacher's guidance step, WebQuest fully used resources on Internet, accomplish certain learning task and enhance students' ability to learning new knowledge and to solve problems.Implementation of Biology elective subject of senior high school is now facing some problems. It is very necessary for Biology teachers in China to use WebQuest in elective subject teaching. In the article, it discussed using WebQuest in the elective subject of senior high school and the theory foundation of using WebQuest in elective subject teaching; designed an idiographic WebQuest case on combining new courses; analyzed the positive and negative affections of using WebQuest in elective subject teaching, and gave suggestions.Basing the designing and analyzing of the WebQuest example, it is proved that using WebQuest in elective subject teaching of Biology could improve students'learning style, changing it to independent, cooperative and inquiry learning. It also could improve teacher's professional capability.