weaving a virtual web:
practical approaches to new information technologies

edited by
Sibylle Gruber
NCTE, 2000

Jean Boreen's Internet Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

The object of this scavenger hunt is to allow you to become more comfortable with the Internet and to see how it works. By the end of this hunt, you should have a better sense about the ‘Net and what it can do.

Let’s begin!

  1. Find Net Search and click.
  2. Choose Info Seek and click
  3. Choose the Kids and Fun selection and click.
  4. Select Silly Jokes.
  5. Scroll down the page until you can find Kaitlyn’s knock-knock jokes and riddles
  6. Once you are at Kaitlyn’s page, choose either Knock-knock jokes or Riddles at the middle of the page.
  7. Now feel free to look at the whole site. Also, write down your favorite joke or riddle you find at this site.
  8. Once you are done, click on the picture of the house at the top of the screen. Doing this will bring you back to where you started.
  9. Now you should be back where we started.
  10. Select Net Search.
  11. Choose Excite this time.
  12. Choose Entertainment.
  13. Find and choose Cartoons (editor’s review).
  14. Choose Peanuts–The dog house under today’s cartoons.
  15. Read the comic strip and then choose Sunday Strip.
  16. Read the comic strip and go ahead and view other strips by selecting any date in the box at the bottom of the page. Write down the date of your favorite strip.
  17. Once you are done, select the Home (picture of the house) key.
  18. Here we go on another search. Choose Net Search.
  19. Choose Yahoo.
  20. Choose Games.
  21. Choose Puzzles.
  22. Choose Tic Tac Toe
  23. Choose Steve’s Tic Tac Toe
  24. Play a few games to see if you can beat Steve. To play your "O", just click on the space where you would like to place it.
  25. Once you are done, select the Home key and prepare to take one more journey on the Net.
  26. Now we are going to try something different. At the top of the screen by the home key is a long box and the word location. There is an address already there but we are going to put our own address in the box. Take the mouse and place the cursor after location and click. You should see a blinking line. Now type in the address http://www.blacktop.com/coralforest
  27. After a few minutes, you should be at the coral reef. Go through this site and explore and find all of the different features this site has. Also, look at all the pictures of the sea. After you are done exploring, write down your favorite picture or your favorite place you visited on this site.
  28. Choose the Home key. Congratulations! You have successfully completed the hunt!


Hunt created by Heather Nebrich and Ali Henderson



 


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