SCAVENGER HUNT:  Searching for Treasure on the Internet

Go to the Internet address:
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the purpose of an online scavenger hunt?
2. What three skills will students need to complete an online scavenger hunt?
3. What popular search engines might students use to complete an online scavenger hunt that does not provide links?
4. What scavenger hunt site was named one of Education World's top 20 educational sites for June 1998?
5. How many links to scavenger hunts are provided at the Internet Treasure Hunts for ESL Students site?
6. What story is the subject of one of the scavenger hunts found on the Holy Redeemer Catholic School (Kanata, Ontario, Canada) Web site?
7. Which school's students created The Hunt, a 42-question "Introduction to the Internet" hunt?
8. Student at Friends University (Wichita, Kansas) created Internet scavenger hunts in partial fulfillment of the requirements of EDUC 894, Using Internet Search Engines. What is the name of the Internet Scavenger Hunt created by Kelly Knoblauch?

Browse the other scavenger hunt sites on the web page
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml

Check out the treasure hunt page at http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/noncoll4.htm

Choose one hunt from either page to explore in more depth.  Write a summary of how you think Scavenger Hunts could be useful to your teaching.
 
More Scavenger Hunts and Information can be found at

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavenger.html
http://cyberbee.com/treasure.html
http://www.monterey.12.ca.us/~pgadult/hunt.htm
http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/rundlett/library/scavenger.htm