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Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts

Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts. By Revonda Bradshaw and Dana Wham. 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

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Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts

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  1. Find Treasure Through Internet Scavenger Hunts By Revonda Bradshaw and Dana Wham

  2. 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

  3. What Makes a Good Scavenger Hunt? • Current links • Easy navigation • Interesting topic • Questions that have a definite answer • Correlated to standards

  4. Good Examples Bones Inside Us http://www.vickiblackwell.com/bones.html Baseball Scavenger Hunt http://www.vickiblackwell.com/scavenger%20hunt/Baseball_Scavenger_Hunt.doc Bad Examples Social Studies Internet Scavenger Hunt http://www2.usiouxfalls.edu/~apeter/sostinternet_scavenhunt.htm Egyptian Scavenger Hunt http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/egypt/hunt/EgyptHunt.html Examples

  5. 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

  6. Create Your OwnScavenger 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.

  7. 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

  8. Resources • Science and Computer scavenger hunts. • http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html • “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/treasurehunts.html • “Adventures of Cyerbee – Treasure Hunts” • http://www.cyberbee.com/hunts.html • Black History • http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson052.shtml

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