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Scavenger HuntsScaffolding student reading and research.
As you peruse these sites for finding scavenger hunts, keep in mind that ultimately we want to use the Internet to develop students’ critical-thinking skills instead of simply as a means of acquiring facts about a topic.Balacing time spent consuming information with time spent building and presenting understanding.
Try WebQuests next!Once you have gotten the hang of creating and using scavenger hunts in the classroom, a great next step is to try finding, building, and using WebQuests. Here are links to our WebQuest page and to Bernie Dodge's QuestGarden.
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One gentle way to guide students toward important information on a Web site is to design a treasure hunt, a type of scavenger hunt, for the site. An online scavenger hunt can be used to introduce students to excellent Web sites while also introducing them to useful information about a curriculum topic. An online scavenger hunt can be an individual or group activity and can be timed or untimed. It typically takes the form of a list of questions that can be answered at a single site or several related Web sites, perhaps with some navigation hints for trickier questions. A scavenger hunt can be the first step in a scaffolded assignment. For instance, students might hunt through introductory sites on ancient Greece as a first step in the process of evaluating ancient Greek democracy.