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.
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	
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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
Flying Circle: the men who flew them [read the seven paragraphs of chapter II]		
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Set #3: strategies
The American Air Service in the Great War: Part II: The Air Service at St. Mihiel	
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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.