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