Adela

I had never given my students and Internet Scavenger Hunt before, so that is what my Internet activity assignment is for this unit.  I am always giving them research projects, but I wanted to do something different this time.  I gave them a list of search engines to help them on the scavenger hunt.  The core curriculum areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies are integrated in the project.  In the project the students will use and evaluate a variety of search engines and use the Internet for research.  They have to use the search engines to find answers to some questions.  They have to fill in a chart that I created in Microsoft Word giving the answer to the question, the URL address where they found the answer, and the search engine used.  I will do this after I have taught them how to properly research on the Internet.  I have never used Boolean characters before, but now I know to incorporate them in my classroom discussion to help students narrow their search.  I tried this after reading Chapter Three, and it was amazing how much the results were narrowed in the search.  I could not believe it!  I know from experience how frustrating it can be to be researching something on the Internet and getting millions of results.  Who has time to look through all of the results they give.  Just skimming through can be time consuming.  I tested the scavenger hunt on my own two boys, and they thought the competition was great.  Scavenger hunts are so much fun.