Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts

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Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts
By Revonda Bradshaw and Dana Wham
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What is an Internet Scavenger Hunt?

• Interactive and Informative
• Appropriate for all areas of curriculum
• Integrated with technology and research skills
• Differentiated instruction
• Easy to create and use
• Utilizes cooperative learning

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What Makes a Good Scavenger Hunt?

• Current links
• Easy navigation
• Interesting topic
• Questions that have a definite answer
• Correlated to standards

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Examples

• Good Examples
• Bones Inside Us
• http//www.vickiblackwell.com/bones.html
• Baseball Scavenger Hunt
• http//www.vickiblackwell.com/scavenger20hunt/Bas
  eball_Scavenger_Hunt.doc

• Bad Examples
• Social Studies Internet Scavenger Hunt
• http//www2.usiouxfalls.edu/apeter/sostinternet_s
  cavenhunt.htm
• Egyptian Scavenger Hunt
• http//edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/egypt/hunt/
  EgyptHunt.html

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Scavenger Hunts Created by Revonda Dana

• Black History Scavenger Hunt by Revonda
• Researched links
• Created questions based on Internet information
• Main URL address on worksheet and in Favorites
  on computer
• Christmas Around the World by Dana
• Adapted from existing scavenger hunt
• Created questions from site
• One main site from which students can navigate

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Create Your Own Scavenger Hunt

• Choose a topic.
• Find valid websites that have accurate and
  current information about that topic.
• Create specific questions without ambiguous
  answers.
• Use a word processing program to type questions
  and hyperlink the websites if necessary.

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How to Hyperlink a Website

• Type the question
• Highlight a word in the question to use as a link
• Click on the globe with chain (Insert/hyperlink
  on pull-down menu)
• Type in or paste link in box
• Click OK
• Examples

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Resources

• Science and Computer scavenger hunts.
• http//homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.h
  tml
• Internet Scavenger Hunts for the Classroom.
• http//www.kathimitchell.com/scavenge.html
• Using Scavenger Hunts
• http//www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html
• Scavenger Hunts for Kids
• http//www.vickiblackwell.com/hunts.html
• The Adventures of Cyberbee
• http//www.cyberbee.com/hunt.html
• Christmas Around the World
• Http//www.henry.k12.ga.us/PGES/xmas_around.htm
• Exciting Internet Treasure Hunts
• http//www.montana.edu/4teachers/instcomp/hunts/tr
  easurehunts.html
• Adventures of Cyerbee Treasure Hunts
• http//www.cyberbee.com/hunts.html
• Black History
• http//www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/less
  on052.shtml