Alex Rider is a teenage spy who works for MI6, similar to James Bond. The document provides tasks for students to complete a webquest on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series. Students are to research Alex's gadgets and how they helped him, key details about the novel, and design their own gadget to solve a mystery at school. They are directed to various websites to gather information on Alex Rider, James Bond, and spy gadgets to inform their design.

1. Stormbreaker
A Webquest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormbreaker_%28novel%29

2. Introduction
Alex Rider is a secret agent hired by
MI6 to solve a mystery.
You will find out how he gets himself out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormbreaker_%28film%29
of tricky situations and discovers the
truth about Stormbreaker.
He has been compared to James Bond,
an adult fictional secret agent
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3. Task
• Find out as much information as you can about
Alex Rider’s gadgets and how they helped him in
tricky situations. You will answer these questions
• How and why Alex became an agent?
• What characteristics make a villain or a hero?
• What countries Alex visited?
• What materials were used create gadgets?
• What mystery did he solve?
You will end up designing your own gadget to
solve a mystery in the school.

4. Process
1. Who is James Bond? Find out what are
the characteristics of James Bond. Use a
dictionary to explain the characteristics in
this Inspiration diagram.
Characteristics of James Bond
2. Make a list of Bond and Alex
characteristics and find similarities. You
will need to visit the Alex Rider Profile
website. James Bond Comparison

5. 1. Look at Alex Riders gadgets and
describe the main features
2. Look at Bond gadgets and discuss if
they could be used today
3. Decide whether Alex can use Bond’s
gadgets in Stormbreaker. You will need
to tell us how and when.

6. What do you think would be the perfect
gadget? You can create a gadget using
Lego Digital Designer or Google Sketchup
or you can draw it using a draw programme
or on paper.
Take elements from Alex and James Bond’s
gadgets to design your own. Explain in
detail what it could do!

8. What now?
• Stormbreaker.com
– Register access to stormbreaker
• Wikipedia
• Alexrider.com
• www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/jamesbond/bo
ndgadgets.shtml copy suitable gadgets
• www.channel4.com/4car/feature/top+ten/1743/
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• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/jame
sbond/bondgadgets.shtml