Scavenger Hunts
Prepared by Patti Shaw
Manassas City Public Schools
January, 2001
What are Scavenger Hunts ?
Scavenger Hunts are a tool for teaching your
students how to search for information while
using the Internet and provide an interesting
format for instruction.
Why use Scavenger Hunts?
 Scavenger Hunts can be used in every curriculum
area and grade level.
 Scavenger Hunts provide students with technology
skills and subject matter knowledge.
 Scavenger Hunts can be used as the introductory
or culminating activity for a unit of study.
 Scavenger Hunts may also be the unit of study
itself, making the students more active learners.
 Scavenger Hunts are easy to create.
Types of Scavenger Hunts
 Twenty Questions: the teacher creates questions or
items to look for and the students use a search
engine to locate the information.
 Twenty Sites: the teacher creates questions and
provides the hypertext link to the URL where the
answer can be located. The URL can either be
written out, or a hyperlink can be created by
highlighting a word or phrase.
Ways to create a
Scavenger Hunt
 Type a Scavenger Hunt in Word, print and give to the
students to find the answers.
 Create a Scavenger Hunt and save it on a disk or on
the hard drive after creating the hyperlinks.
Students can work on the Hunt on their computers.
 Create a Web page Scavenger Hunt.
Examples: http://www.kids-learn.org/stellaluna/stellabats.htm
http://users.mfi.net//~forest/tmath/scavenger.html
http://www.manassas.k12.va.us/round/ClassWeb/Maier/scavenger.htm
http://www.manassas.k12.va.us/shaw/election2000/election_2000_internet_scav
enger.htm
Scavenger Hunt Examples
*Internet Treasure Hunts for Students
http://www.ctnba.org/ctn/k8/treasure.html
Try the Colonial Americas Scavenger Hunt
Exciting Internet Treasure Hunts-All Topics and Grade
Levels
http://www.montana.edu/4teachers/instcomp/hunts/treasurehunt
s.html
The Scavenger Hunt Page
http://lserver.aea14.k12.ia.us/Scavenger.html
Daedalus Design Group
http://www.ddgweb.com/webhunt.htm
Scavenger Hunt Examples
Continued
Internet Scavenger Hunts-All Subjects
http://cecasun.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/scavenger.html
http://cecasun.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/scavenger/s99e414DoverJsc.html
Colonial and Revolutionary American Scavenger Hunt
http://home.earthlink.net/~ohora/ext/colpeople.html
Numerous Examples
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Scavdec.htm
Scavenger Hunt
http://ms.mathscience.k12.va.us/lessons/webhunt/scav
enger.html
Still More Examples...
Numerous Examples
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml
Scroll down and check #5. Internet Treasure Hunt for ESL Students
World Wide Web Scavenger Hunt
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/Materials/scavhunt.ht
ml
Colonial Scavenger Hunt
http://home.earthlink.net/~ohora/ext/colpeople.html
Happy Hunting!
Sample
Scavenger Hunt Question
1.
Poetry for Kids
http://www.poetry4kids.com
What is making this author laugh?
________________________________________
________________________________________
Type your Scavenger Hunt using Word. Save it on
your desktop, where it will be ready for your
students to use. All they have to do is read the
question, click on the underlined link and they will be
taken right to the web site to find the answer. If
you have a hard copy printed out they can write their
answers on that.
Resources
 The Connected Classroom
Strategies for using the Internet
http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/cc/inclass/scavenge.htm
 Scavenger Hunt Templates
http://www.qesn.meq.qouv.qc.ca/cc/inclass/scavtemp.htm
 Education World
Scavenger Hunts:Searching for Treasure on the Internet!
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml
 Spartanburg District 3 County Schools
Why use Scavenger Hunts?
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WhyScavHunts.html