"Discover Hidden Gems: Internet Scavenger Hunts for All Subjects"

Slide1Find Treasure  Through Internet Scavenger Hunts Find  Treasure  Through Internet Scavenger Hunts By Revonda Bradshaw and Dana Wham

Slide2What is an InternetScavenger 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

Slide3What Makes a GoodScavenger Hunt? • Current links • Easy navigation • Interesting topic • Questions that have a definite answer • Correlated to standards

Slide4ExamplesGood Examples Bones Inside Us http://www.vickiblackwell.com/bo nes.html Baseball Scavenger Hunt http://www.vickiblackwell.com/sca venger%20hunt/Baseball_Scave nger_Hunt.doc Bad Examples Social Studies Internet Scavenger Hunt http://www2.usiouxfalls.edu/~apet er/sostinternet_scavenhunt.htm Egyptian Scavenger Hunt http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edte c670/egypt/hunt/EgyptHunt.ht ml

Slide5Scavenger HuntsCreated 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

Slide6Create 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.

Slide7How 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

Slide8Resources• 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