"Finding the Good Stuff" Internet
Scavenger Hunt
Locating Resources for Online Activities
This scavenger hunt is designed to acquaint teachers with resources that are available for creating and using online activities as a means of integrating technology. This is a very tiny tip of the iceberg. Hopefully each site noted will inspire further investigation.
Before starting, check out these quick tips about searching for resources.
1. Visit the Internet Search Engines site and describe the "Open Directory Project". (Hint: about dmoz)
2. Using the Internet Search Engines site, answer the following:
a. Dogpile, Fazzle, Mamma, and Kartoo are examples of what type of search engines?
b. How does Kartoo differ from the others?
3. Internet Subject Directories are a good source for locating a number of links on a related topic. Two popular directories are the Librarian's Index to the Internet and the Internet Public Library (Note: IPL has a KidSpace, and TeenSpace .)
a. Using KidSpace, find a link to information about Thanksgiving. (Hint: Culture Quest> North America) Write the link (URL) below:
4. Check out these Search Tools for Kids .
a. Use KidsClick to find more information about Thanksgiving (Hint: Search: "Thanksgiving". Write down a link (URL) to information about The History of Thanksgiving.
5. Visit Scholastic's Online Activity Center and locate the First Thanksgiving online activity.
a. Who was the ship's cooper aboard the Mayflower?
b. What is a cooper?
6. Visit Internet Hunt Activities. Look at the "October Internet Hunt" and tell why leaves change colors.
7. Visit Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School to locate Revolutionary War web links for kids.
a. What happened first, the Boston Tea Party or the Declaration of Independence?
8. View the video from the Independence Road Trip .
a. Who was the "red haired wonder"?
b. What are "broadsides"? Need more information? Try this page: Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution
9. Visit Scholastic's Our America Online Activities: Revolutionary War pages. Name a good book for students to read regarding this historical time period.
10. Visit SCORE CyberGuides. Under CyberGuides for grade 4 and five, locate the CyberGuide for the book "My Brother Sam is Dead". Investigate Student Activity Five: Oral Presentation.
a. What is the last line in Patrick Henry's famous "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death" speech?
11. Visit the NARA Educators and Students page to learn more about the Declaration of Independence .
a. Sign the Declaration of Independence
b. Who was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence?
c. Look at The Great Depression and World War II documents. Find the document rough draft of "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" speech. What important word was revised and not in his original draft?
12. Visit Book Talks Plain and Simple. Locate one, two or more books (Subject: Historical Fiction - that would coincide with a unit on the American Revolution. Write the information below:
13. What was the Raid on Deerfield?
14. Visit Bernie Poole's Scavenger Hunts page. List one hunt that you would use with your class.
15. Visit Teaching with the Web . How is this site organized?
16. Visit the Techssentials website
a. Scroll through the list of Tech Integration Resources and choose one or two sites you have never seen before to investigate.
b. Look at WebQuests and Scavenger Hunts to locate a WebQuest that you might consider using with your class
c. Visit NYLearns. Search for standards by Grade Level, Subject. Browse the Educational Resources section. (Hint: click tab at top). Search for resources on the American Revolution or Thanksgiving. List one useful resource you discovered.
17. Compare using a search engine, subject directory or web portal link collections.
a. Use Librarian's Index to the Internet to search for American Revolution resources. What are the advantages, disadvantages?
b. Use a search engine to search for American Revolution resources. What are the advantages, disadvantages?
c. Use a web portal link collection to search for American Revolution resources (i.e., Teaching with the Web, Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School , Techssentials , Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, NEC EdLinks, etc.). What are the advantages, disadvantages?
J. Black Fall 2005