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Internet Hunt Activities created by Cindy O'Hora

The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is to find them. These information scavenger hunts will help you discover how diverse this resource truly is. You will also gain experience harnessing the Internet. There are over 200 activities offered. Strengthen your Internet browsing skills by checking out my tips on Getting Back.

How to Use: Create a link from your class/school web page to this index page or to the individual hunt page. OR Bookmark this site. OR You can type the address of a hunt page in the browser location bar. answers forms: Do the Digital format OR Print the hunt web page(s) for an answer sheet or use the printer friendly worksheets, or have the students number down a lined sheet of paper. Make your own answer form how to

Goldilocks Web tip: You can easily adjust your view of the text on a page. If you think the words are too small: Safari - Go: View .. Make Text bigger or Mac - hold down the command key command key and press the + key (plus sign) or Windows use Ctrl & + key. Firefox - Go: View .. Text Size. Conversely, if you think it is too big do the same, but choose smaller or Mac command key .. - (minus sign) or Windows: Ctrl .. - minus sign key. Look for this feature on other browsers so you can make your view .. just right!

Archives:
Featured Hunts:
October Facts Internet Hunt Autumn Internet Hunt Constitution, Civics & History Activites
October Civics Hunt The Internet - Actions can have lasting consequences new
U.S. Constitution Elections & Terms Information Literacy - 3 Activites
U. S. Constitution - Selecting the President Moving Out - a Migration facts Internet Hunt
Nothing But the Truth Internet activity Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve Hunt Magic Tree House Puzzle
Science

Air and Air Pollution facts

Auroras! online activity

Australian Animals

Basic Body Internet Hunt 4th up

Bats are our Buddies - about bats utd 9/08

Biodiversity Exploration Plant Investigation

Birds - learn about our feathered friends.

Birds Exploration 6-9th utd 4/08

Bugs Hunt - 3-6 What's bugging you? revised

Bullfrogs & Amphibians Internet activity

Butterfly and Moth facts hunt utd 9/07 Part 2

The Cell - Internet activity MS/HS

Chemistry and Chemists MS/HS

Cicadas

Considering Systems and Controls

Crude Oil is more than gasoline pbl

Drought Presentation - pbl

Earth's Layer s Online Activity utd 11/07

Eggs Hunt - primary utd 3/08

Eggs Hunt - ms/hs

Energy Alternatives Exploration

Energy Light bulbs compare/contrast Activity

Explore Efficient Energy Uses

Energy Hunt

Energy Savers Activity

Environmental Exploration Activity

Environmentalists Internet Hunt

Fishy Facts Internet Activity

Heart Hunt - also Heart idioms exercise

Teen Health Research Project ms/hs

Investigating Insects Hunt - insect hunt gr 5 - 8

Investigating Insects Hunt Part 2

Inventors and Inventions

Maple trees and Sugarbush

Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies

Moving Out Hunt - animal migration utd 11/07

Nests Hunt

Newton and the Laws of Motion utd 1/07

Plant Parts Facts Activity

Prairie Ecosystem Activity utd 1/06

Rainforest Scavenger Hunt for 3rd gr. by L Stephan & T Pearson

Rocks and Minerals fact hunt utd 4/08

Geology of Pennsylvania - Dig into it

Scientific Method Activity - Try the Quiz

Screech Owls Activity based on the book by C. Lamm

Observation skills builders: Bush | Nest | Larvae | Sky | Line | Hole

September Science Internet Activity

Space Internet Hunt

Trees Hunt

Water cycle, Groundwater, Fresh water activity 4-8

Learn about Watershed Activity - Try Lentic or Lotic Ecosystems

Weather Internet Hunt utd 12/06

Women of Science Internet Hunt utd 1/08

Worm Hunt - It should be easy to catch them! utd 1/07

Challenging Activities & resources on other websites

The Future Channels integrating math science and career exploration

Computer based Activities index has its own page

Hunts: Arts / Social Studies / Months & Holidays / Literature / Civics Projects and Essays / Problem and Project Based Learning

tiny gold star Frequently Asked Questions about these hunts. I do not provide answer keys.

tiny gold star As I work on the web, I come across hundreds of remarkable web sites. I have collected some of them in these links.

Preparing Your Daughter or Son for the Next Century

Many thanks to WBRE for the feature article in Making the Grade.

A mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Study Web excellence award

Web Wizard recognition

Adding Wisdom Award


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Updated October 2, 2008, posted 3/1999
Frequently Asked Questions

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tree icon Save a tree - use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the wp document in an easily read, contrasting color or font. (No yellow,, no Symbols, broad font, dear font font) Save regularly as you work. Or perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it.

Copyright ©1999 Cynthia J. O'Hora. Feel free to link to any individual web page. Educators and individuals may print a hunt, for use in a classroom setting. January 7th, 2007 - I have decided to release some of my works to public domain. Look at the bottom of a page to find the notice of copyright. I continue to retain a full copyright protection on the majority of my work. That is noted on the individual works. Use of the materials here constitutes an agreement with the Terms of Use.

Terms of Use: I am providing some of the hunts in PDF. You'll need a free pdf program to use them like Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may print the web page or the pdf copy for an answer sheet in a class. Using Mac OSX. More information at the bottom of this web page.

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