This is the scaffold for the students. It explains what steps the learners should go through. Use the numbered list format in your web editor to automatically number the steps in the procedure. Describing this section well will also help other teachers to see how your lesson flows and how they might adapt it for their own use, so the more detail and care you put into this, the better. Remember that this whole document is addressed to the student, however, so describe the steps using the second person.

Most WebQuests involve role playing (see examples). You will introduce the roles here and give detail for each role. You could have different process instructions for each role in addition to the general process instructions.

Learners will access the online resources that you've identifed as they go through the Process. You may have a set of links that everyone looks at as a way of developing background information, or not. If you break learners into groups, include the links that each group will look at within the description of that stage of the process.

In the Process block, you might also provide some guidance on how to organize the information gathered. This advice could be suggestions to use flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or other organizing structures. The advice could also take the form of a checklist of questions to analyze the information with, or things to notice or think about.

Resources

You could list the resources separately before or after the Process, but it is preferable to integrate the resources with the process instructions. You will notice how this is dealt with in different examples.

Resources do not all have to be web resources.