Because of its interactive and multimedia nature, the Internet has been touted as an increasingly important aspect of both elementary and secondary education. A recent survey, however, indicated that the Internet and all of its apparent potential is not often used by K-5 social studies teachers. One possible reason for this is that sorting through the vastness of cyberspace for quality information is difficult. This article describes self-contained instructional modules known as WebQuests that scaffold Internet-based content to an inquiry-oriented process that results in a student product or project. The WebQuest model allows teachers to control and preview Internet content that students will be exposed to, and thousands of WebQuests for K-5 students already exist on the Internet. Examples of the best of these, which provide a ready-made, curriculum model that can help K-5 teachers foster higher-order thinking by integrating the power of the Internet in their classrooms, are described in this paper. (Contains 13 endnotes.)