Build a WebQuest
WebQuests remain useful for structuring inquiry around curated online sources. Reality Herald provides a simple model teachers can adapt: introduction, task, process, sources, evaluation, and conclusion.
Open the WebQuest guideTEACHER RESOURCES
Put students in contact with arguments worth investigating.
Reality Herald wants to help teachers build assignments that move students beyond summary and toward research, comparison, argument, rebuttal, source criticism, and intellectual independence.
PBworks
PBworks can host collaborative classroom workspaces, project pages, resources, and student-created content.
PBworks Education →Google Sites
Google Sites provides another straightforward place to host WebQuests, class research hubs, portfolios, and source collections, especially in Google-integrated schools.
Google Sites →Teachers Pay Teachers
TPT remains a large marketplace for teacher-created resources, including tens of thousands of WebQuest listings across grade levels and subjects.
Teachers Pay Teachers → Browse WebQuests on TPT →
ASSIGNMENT IDEAS
Use Reality Herald as a starting point, not an answer key.
Find the thesis
Ask students to state an article's thesis in one sentence, identify supporting reasons, and distinguish evidence from assertion.
Find the hidden premise
Have students identify assumptions required for an argument to work but never stated directly by the author.
Build the strongest rebuttal
Require students to construct the best opposing argument before defending their own conclusion.
Compare sources
Give students primary sources, scholarly sources, journalism, and advocacy materials, then ask how genre and purpose affect each source.
Trace a claim
Students follow a factual claim back through citations until they reach the strongest available original source.
Rewrite the argument
Students revise a weak argument by tightening definitions, removing exaggeration, adding evidence, and answering objections.
CLUBS & COMPETITION
Connect classroom work to real competition.
Teachers coaching speech and debate, Model United Nations, Global Issues Network, or mock trial can send students directly to Reality Herald's Student Argumentation hub and conference calendar.
USEFUL EXTERNAL RESOURCES
Places teachers already use
PBworks Education
Collaborative classroom workspaces and wiki-style project pages.
Visit PBworks →Google Sites
Simple hosted pages for lessons, WebQuests, portfolios, and class resource hubs.
Visit Google Sites →Teachers Pay Teachers
Teacher-created lessons, projects, rubrics, and WebQuest resources.
Visit TPT →NSDA
Speech and debate competition resources for middle- and high-school programs.
Visit NSDA →