Literature based Internet Scavenger hunts - December 2001 A group of eighth grade students in Mrs. Janet Sassaman's Language Arts classes created hunts. They were based on one of three books read by the group. Each hunt was unique. It lead the user on a question-based, activity that revealed information about the setting, author, characters, vocabulary and more. The questions were meant to offer insight into the story and the author. The hunts were based on "To Build a Fire" or The Call of the Wild, both by Jack London, or on the novel Downriver by Will Hobbs. To create the hunts, students:
Have the students do a month based hunt to give them an idea of how an Internet hunt works. Literature based Internet Hunts Start / Gathering facts & questions / Research / Conversion to a webpage / Rubric |