Scavenger Hunt
Objective:
Students will be able to develop an online scavenger hunt for a grade
level of their choice.
Objective: Students will be able to encourage
their classrooms to develop skills using the internet through the scavenger
hunt they develop.
Introduction:
Everyday we use the internet to get
information, find directions to a new restaurant or check our email. Think back to some of the first times you
were able to use the internet and how much time it took you to learn how to
navigate through the millions of pieces of information you could find.
Students may have grown up with the internet
at their finger tips at all times but not all of them understand how to find
the information they are looking for.
Other students may not have spent very much time on the internet because
they do not have a computer at home and need to learn how to navigate through
the World Wide Web. Through the activity
that you develop students should gain some insight and confidence when using
the internet.
Activities:
Read the following articles to get a
better understanding of what an online scavenger hunt is.
- Internet
Scavenger Hunt –
http://www.scavengerhuntsecrets.com/internet-scavenger-hunt
- How
to Make Online Scavenger Hunts:
From your elementary educators guide. http://k6educators.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Online_Scavenger_Hunts0962932801.htm
Visit the following scavenger hunts to
see how some of them are set up. You can
also find other scavenger hunts on the web to get a better understanding of how
you may want to develop your own.
- Explore
the Fantastic Forest – View a scavenger hunt in which students answer
the questions with a paper and pen but find their answers on the web. http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0201/adventures/
- Ann
Frank – This scavenger hunt has a list of questions students are to answer
with the appropriate link to where they can find the answer. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/May04_cyberhuntkids.htm
- Yellowstone
– On this site students are lead through various online tours in order to
find the answers to the questions of their scavenger hunt. http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/kidstuff/scavhunt/index.htm
Assignment:
For this assignment you will develop a
scavenger hunt for the subject and grade of your choice. You should include at least ten
questions. Remember what the purpose of
the scavenger hunt is depending on the grade level you choose. Early elementary students may simply be getting
acquainted with the internet while high school students are really searching
for specific facts. You can choose what
type of format you would like. Make sure
to include hyperlinks to the appropriate site where students can find the
answers to scavenger hunt questions that you make.
Submission:
Post your
activities as an html file to your FTP folder, create a link to the file on
your index page, and send your instructor an email notification containing a
working hyperlink to the assignment (not to your index page) and the assignment
file's URL. Make sure the subject line of your email is
in the following format: SLM521-lastname-Assignment Title - elective # (if
applicable).
Rubric:
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Unacceptable |
Developing |
Accomplished |
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Questions |
Questions are not appropriate for
level tying to be reached. |
Questions are vague; there are no ten
questions included. |
Scavenger hunt questions are
appropriate but somewhat challenging for classroom level. |
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Hyperlinks |
No working hyperlinks are included. |
Only about half of the hyperlinks are
working correctly. May need a more
direct website for question being answered. |
All links are working and allow
student to travel to the correct, appropriate web page to find answers. |