Creating Scavenger Hunts

Creating Scavenger Hunts

Developing a scavenger hunt is one method teachers can use to teach academic concepts and teach navigation skills to students. Scavenger hunts can be of two primary types.

1. The teacher develop a series of questions or request a series of items for the student to collect and the student uses a search engine to locate the information. See Select A Decade scavenger hunt sample.
2. The teacher develops a series of questions and gives the student a hypertext link to the URL that will answer the question. See Astronaut scavenger hunt sample.

Please click here to download or view an example concept map Scavenger Hunt Word document.

In either case, developing a scavenger hunt is really no different from developing a general knowledge quiz for students. A teacher may take the following steps:

• Identify an idea/concept that he/she would like to reinforce or introduce.
• Search for web sites that reinforce/introduce the concept.
• Develop questions that may be answered at the site.
• Save it to a web site or give students a paper handout.