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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. 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

Terms of Use: I am providing many 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 webpage.

Archives:
Computer based Activities:

Computer Scavenger Hunt - terms, history, facts. utd 1/08

Computer Scavenger Hunt 2 utd 12/2007

Are you 21st Century Literate?

Basics of the Internet - 4th up

About the Internet ms/hs utd 10/07

Balancing Privacy and Security - datamining

Binary Language Activity utd 10/07

Bloggez- vous? Should you build a blog? new

Cars - Individual Privacy, Public Safety and Justice new

Collaborations online & Networking power new

Collaborations & Networking working with these tools

Computer Insides-Out Hunt utd 10/07

Computer Maintenance Lesson utd 10/07

Computer Peripherals utd 10/07

Considering Systems and Controls

Constitution - Privacy and the Digital Age

Database = Power

Database Internet Hunt

Harnessing online databases1

Harnessing online databases 2

Database Organization

Database Vocabulary Activity

Boolean Searching - Information literacy

MYO Database

Digital - Discerning Fake and Real Photos - Why does it matter to you?

Copyright Issues Hunt food for thought and action utd 11/07

Digital Storytelling

eGovernment - Expectations & Evaluations

Email Savvy Internet Hunt utd 6/07

GIS - Understanding and Using

Google Search - try the special features

GPS - harnessing new technology

Information Literacy - web & print resources

Information Literacy - Keyword searching

Information Literacy - Boolean Searching

Innovators in Computing Hunt utd 10/07

Internet - Actions can have lasting consequences new

Lunar Society and the Homebrew Computer Club new

Make your own Literature based Internet Hunt

Make your own Country or State hunt

Make a vocabulary puzzle new

MP3 - the good and the ugly

Net Neutrality - What is it? Why does it matter?

Podcasts - getting information via the Internet Activity utd 1/08

Problem/Project based activities

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined ebook activity about the web

Spreadsheet tips and tricks hunt

Transparency Essay ms/hs

Technology education links

Word Processing Hunt new and improved.

Off Site Resources:

100,000 Computers a Day hands on math new

Tech info with a touch of humor come on laugh about it!

Artificial Intelligence - Manufactured Minds

*Beyond Bullet Points approach to multimedia slides

Best Practices of Tech Integration

Invisible or Deep Web

CyberSmart - Free K-8 lessons on safety and use of the Internet

Computer Webquest

CyberWar - computer intrusions on Frontline

Digital Future at CSPAN

Digital Photoessays - Digital Edge Learning Interchange

Finding a Needle - worksheet activity

National Educational Technology Standards for Students

Get Your Web License from PBS - interactive safety and use activity

iMovie Planning

OnGuardOnline.gov

Social Networking: Don't Give Yourself Away

Technology Buzzwords

Web Basics at WebTeacher

What Was That Again? Internet vocabulary - worksheet activity

Probing Ponds - Digital Edge Learning Interchange

WebQuest for Spatial Skills

National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) new

Politics and Web Video presentation new

RSS in Plain English from Common Craft new

Collaborate using Google Docs! Video new

Wikis in Plain English new

 

Hunts: Arts / Social Studies / Months & Holidays / Literature / Science / Civics Projects and Essays / Problem 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 a few 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 June 12, 2008, posted 3/1999

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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. Others are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. 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. You MAY NOT post my copyrighted works in a personal web site, a school web site, or in an intranet. Use of the materials here constitutes an agreement with these Terms of Use. Frequently Asked Questions

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