Internet Scavenger Hunt
Use your search skills to answer or locate the following. Record the URL
where you located the answer, the search engine you used, the search
technique you used, the time it took you to find the answer (to the nearest
minute), and answers/documents requested.
1. Locate an interactive math worksheet.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/Worksheets/DecimalAddition.html
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Interactive Math Worksheets
Time: 2 minutes
Skill(s) Addressed: Addition of decimals
2. What is the weather forecast for Ho Chi Minh City for Friday, June 22?
URL:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/weekend/VMXX0007?f
rom=36hr_topnav_business
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Weather Forecast
Time: 1 minute
Forecast: Scattered thunderstorms, high is 89 degrees Fahrenheit, low is 77
degrees Fahrenheit.
3. What percentage of the population 15 and over in SopChoppy, Florida, has
never been married?
URL: http://www.city-data.com/city/SopChoppy-Florida.html
Search Engine/Directory: Ask.com
Search Technique: What is the % of people 15 and over that have not been
married in SopChoppy, Florida?
Time: 3 minutes
Percentage unmarried: 23.7%
4. On September 22 1776, Revolutionary War hero, Nathan Hale was hanged
by the British as a spy. What is he famous for saying just before he died?
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Nathan Hale
Time: 30 Seconds
Quote: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country".
5. What does brain research tell us about physical movement and learning?
URL: http://www.brainhighways.com/program/research.html
Search Engine/Directory: Ask.com
Search Technique: What does brain research tell us about physical movement
and learning?
Time: 2 minutes
Research findings: There is a direct relationship between movement and
learning. We now know that there is a pathway from the cerebellum (known
for its role in posture, coordination, balance and movement) to parts of the
brain involved in memory, attention, and spatial perception (Strick, 1995).
6. Locate a lesson plan for an interactive math lesson about tessellations.
URL: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/Tessellations/
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Interactive tessellations lesson plan
Time: 3 minutes
Name of lesson: Tessellations: Geometry and Symmetry
7. What civil rights advocate wrote her story in A Colored Woman in a White
World?
URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr098.html
Search Engine/Directory: Ask.com
Search Technique: A colored woman in a White World
Time: 1 minute
Civil Rights Advocate: Mary Church Terrell
8. What child of a runaway slave was a football All-American and a wellknown actor and singer?
URL: http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1979/JSH0602/jsh0602b.pdf
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: “what child of a runaway slave was a football all-American
and a well-known actor and singer?
Time: 4 minutes
All-American football player: Paul Robeson
9. Locate a primary source document, battle map of Gettysburg, at the Library
of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3824g+cw033
1000))
Search Engine/Directory: www.loc.gov
Search Technique: battle map of Gettysburg
Time: 4 minutes
Paste a small version of the map here.
10. Locate a free text to speech reader online.
URL: http://www.naturalreaders.com/
Search Engine/Directory: Google and Ask
Search Technique: Free text to speech reader
Time: 1 minute
11. Locate an Edutopia article about school as a temple.
URL: http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/3501
Search Engine/Directory: Ask
Search Technique: Edutopia: School as a temple
Time: 2 minutes
2 sentence summary: The concept of the community school and the related
idea of the school as literally the center of its community .The noble goal is to
provide a place where the divide that often exists between a school and the
community can be eliminated.
12. Locate a video about global warming at
http://www.altavista.com/video/default
URL: http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/f042/dsimpson/wip/teacherpage-djs.htm
Search Engine/Directory: altavista.com
Search Technique: Global Warming
Time: 2 minutes
13. Use Google Scholar to locate an article about Jean Piaget's Genetic
Epistemology.
URL: http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Areas/GE.html
Search Engine/Directory: Google scholar
Search Technique: Jean Piaget’s genetic Epistemology
Time:
14. Locate a search engine that searches only dog sites.
URL: http://www.dogseek.com/
Search Engine/Directory: Google
Search Technique: Search engine for dog sites
Time: 1 minute
Britni’s Reflection:
I felt this assignment was interesting because I wanted to be able to
find the information quickly, and through this activity I found myself trying to
think of the best directories to search with. The Google web engine seemed to
be most useful for me but I think this is because I am used to using it. The
most difficult thing to find for me was the identity of Paul Robeson. It was
difficult to work backwards by first finding the history of the person before you
knew who they were.
Ashley’s Reflection:
I enjoyed this activity and found it most interesting that different people
preferred using different search engines. I chose Ask.com while Britni
preferred Google. I think it was most useful using web engines that I was
comfortable with. I feel the hardest part of the entire assignment was finding
out who Paul Robeson was. I felt that this person seemed to have an
interesting past, and was surprised that I had never heard of him when I
discovered his name.