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CREATING A SCAVENGER HUNT
Scavenger hunts, or treasure hunts, hare one of
the most popular tools for teaching students how to access and use the resources
and information available on the Internet so they can gather information which
will help them learn a subject.
Among them:
Online scavenger hunts are easy to create and
the resulting interactive searches are both fun and informative for students.
The hunts can be geared to virtually any
curriculum area, simultaneously providing students with technological and
subject matter knowledge.
Online scavenger hunts can be used as a whole
class activity, as a team activity, or as a means of providing individual
students with review or challenge activities.
Scavenger hunts can be as simple or involved as
circumstances dictate. Students may be provided with only a few questions, along
with the links or URLs necessary for finding the answers, while older students
may be given only a broad topic and asked to find their own sources for
obtaining necessary information. How to Make Online Scavenger Hunts
Simple steps for designing an Internet
Scavenger Hunt that helps kids learn web browsing skills as well as subject
matter content.
Difficulty Level:
average
Time Required:
1-2 hours
Here's How:
- Decide on the curricular focus of your Internet Scavenger Hunt.
- Find a collection of relevant web sites on the topic.
- Open up a word processing program for writing the instructions and
questions.
- Begin with very clear and specific directions for each and every step
the students should take when they get on the computer. i.e. open up your
web browser, click on this button, etc.
- Give the students a list of designated web sites to search, either
through a special web page you create or on the worksheet itself.
- Cut and paste the exact wording from the web site and turn the
information into questions.
- Gather the material from a variety of different web sites and from
various positions on the pages.
- Mix up the order of the questions so that students have to browse around
all of the sites to find the answers.
- Pair together a student who has advanced web browsing skills with a more
inexperienced student so that students can learn from each other.
- During the hunt, monitor the students closely, offering tips about how
to effectively find information on the Internet.
- Write a few bonus assignments for those students who finish early.
Tips:
- It may work best to have your students work in pairs on this project.
- Monitor closely to make sure that students browse only the designated
sites.
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