What are Scavenger Hunts-- or Web Links?

• Want to help your students improve their reading and comprehension skills?

• Is problem solving a skill you want your students to practice?

• Would you like your students to search the Internet safely and effectively?

• Do you want your students to gain information and analyze and use the informatio

 According to Education World:

• "Online scavenger hunts are easy to create and the resulting interactive searches are both fun and informative for students.

   

• The hunts can be geared to virtually any curriculum area, simultaneously providing students with technological and subject matter knowledge.

   

• Online scavenger hunts can be used as a whole class activity, as a team activity, or as a means of providing individual students with review or challenge activities.

   

• Scavenger hunts can be as simple or involved as circumstances dictate. Younger students may be provided with only a few questions, along with the links or URLs necessary for finding the answers, while older students may be given only a broad topic and asked to find their own sources for obtaining necessary information. "

Examples:

Scholastic's Cyber-Hunt Page for Kids 

Celebrate the Century:

Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson079.shtml

 

Guided Tours 

 

Greenvalley Scavenger Hunt Resource Page 

 

Education World: Scavenger Hunts

 

School Scavenger Hunts

 

Web Scavenger Hunts  

Scavenger Hunts for Kids

 

Internet Hunt Activities created by Cindy O'Hora

 

Web Knowledge (Scavenger) Hunts for Elementary Education