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Native Plants: An Outdoor Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize various California native species by their physical appearances and characteristics. They recognize the adaptations that plants make to their surroundings and how humans make use of plants.
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Historical Geography Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are told that Geography is the science that deals with the differentiation of the surface of the earth due to the influence of things like population, vegetation, geology, and land use. They explore the Geography Basics page. ...
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Hurricane Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explain how hurricanes are formed, why they are so dangerous, and how they can be tracked. Students work with a partner to investigate the Internet to answer questions about hurricanes.
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Botany Scavenger Hunt Where's the Ginkgo?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use a science journal to log plants that are native to Alabama. In this plant lesson plan, learners identify characteristics, describe environments, and classify the plants that they find.
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Bean Bag Scavenger Hunt

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Pupils look for hidden bean bags on the playground. Once all bags are found, students may hide them from each other. Each student should have the opportunity to hide and find the bean bags. While pupils are hunting, the teacher should...
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As The World Curves

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students partisipate in a web scavenger hunt on an introductory lesson for conic sections. They become familiar with general forms of the equations, what they look like, and how they are used in the real-world.
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Using the Internet to Challenge Young Writers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Designed as a professional development exercise to introduce teachers to the Internet, the activities in this resource ask novice web surfers to access a series of sites, bookmark them, and answer question about information found on the...
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Newspaper Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Here are a couple of unique ways to utilize old newspapers in school in the form of an arts and crafts project. The first is a smile umbrella made out of newspaper, the second requires learners to look through newspapers or magazines to...
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An Interactive Journey to an Aquarium

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students go on a field trip to an aquarium and create an iMovie project and/or an iPhoto photo book about their day. When students get to the aquarium, they go on the scavenger hunt to identify animals and answer one question about each...
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Allusions to Shakespeare in Popular Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Send your high schoolers on a scavenger hunt through popular culture (music, television, video games, movies) to find allusions to Shakespeare. They must each provide three to share with the class, and the one they present cannot have...
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Rainbows, Bridges & Weather, Oh My!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Explore how real-world applications can be parabolic in nature and how to find quadratic functions that best fit data. A number of different examples of modeling parabolas are explored including a student scavenger hunt, the exploration...
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Who is on that Bill? Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, who are adult learners, participate in an Internet scavenger hunt in order to assimilate information about the biography of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers. They look at the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers...
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Research Projects for Regional History

For Teachers K - 12th
Young writers of any grade level research a historical topic of their choice about their local community. Using primary sources, they examine the historical significance of their area. They participate in activities such as going on a...
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Exploring Fractions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars participate in a web scavenger hunt to find the answers to develop an understanding of fractions. They complete a geometric graph with shapes representing fractions.
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Using a Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
When do we use dictionaries? Provide this dictionary scavenger hunt for your youngsters. Third and fourth graders search for words, recording the number of syllables or definition for a variety of words. Get your class using dictionaries...
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The Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use factual information to locate historically significant items in a film clip. They navigate the site searching for the answers to the clues listed on the handout. Students write their answers in complete sentences. Some of...
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Agriculture Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, learners find the words that are related to the finding of terms and information about agriculture for ten questions. The answers are on page 3.
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Civil War Participants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use Internet and book resources to complete a scavenger hunt in which they must find information regarding people involved in the Civil War. Then they use information they found on the scavenger hunt to create a poster of...
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Biology and the Digital Atlas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a scavenger hunt on the internet. Using a digital atlas, they find answers to specific questions related to plants found in Idaho. To end the instructional activity, they share their results to the class to...
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Home: The Story of Maine

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students identify at least 10 foods that are important to Maine's economy and culture. They participate in a scavenger hunt as they find their way around a grocery store.
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Celebrating our Heritage Buildings

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create a scavenger hunt with clues related to a building they have researched. Working in small groups, they use the internet and traditional resources to find information pertaining to a historical building. Students use...
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Just the Facts Please: Puerto Rico

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars research important facts about Puerto Rico by participating in an internet Scavenger Hunt. They also make their own Puerto Rican flags and write the facts they located inside of their flags. A quiz is administered the the...
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Funding "Great" Schools For All in America

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students use research skills and primary sources to complete a equal educational opportunities scavenger hunt activity in pairs. They locate key facts, examples, and information about the inequities in U.S. schools and create projects...
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Rainforests

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain the characteristics of a rainforest habitat.  In this rainforest instructional activity, 2nd graders examine the layers of the rainforest and the locations of rainforests.   Students complete a...

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