Welcome back, dear parents and teachers. How are you doing?
Today, I want to show you another of my favourite classroom activities. It's mostly aimed to teachers, but I think creative and enthusiastic parents could try it to...with good results and lots of fun for them and their kids, I'm sure!
The name of this activity is "The treasure hunt". It's somehow similar to a webquest, but easier and shorter. You can get it ready faster and kids need less time to perform it. Let's say it's much more concrete.
Let's see: you can develop this activiy through a simple word or pdf document. Sometimes, the task setting need no more than a page. You start with a brief introduction. Then, you propose a list of questions related to a certain subject. You offer kids some resources so they can get the right answers (by resources we usually mean web sites, but you can also choose some books containing the information kids need). Up to now, it's very similar to a webquest, isn't it? Fair enough, you are right, but now comes the trick: the last question in your list should be what we call THE GREAT QUESTION. It's a question whose answer is not available in the resources you've chosen...they have to work it out themselves from the actual information they have. That's the best part, really.
Usually, you don't need more than a session to get the job done. Kids learn a lot and they have fun. You'd be amazed at the results. And you can use a treasure hunt to work about all the subjects you can imagene (in English as much as in their native language). Take a look at this example. It's a treasure hunt about Maths:
Today, I want to show you another of my favourite classroom activities. It's mostly aimed to teachers, but I think creative and enthusiastic parents could try it to...with good results and lots of fun for them and their kids, I'm sure!
The name of this activity is "The treasure hunt". It's somehow similar to a webquest, but easier and shorter. You can get it ready faster and kids need less time to perform it. Let's say it's much more concrete.
Let's see: you can develop this activiy through a simple word or pdf document. Sometimes, the task setting need no more than a page. You start with a brief introduction. Then, you propose a list of questions related to a certain subject. You offer kids some resources so they can get the right answers (by resources we usually mean web sites, but you can also choose some books containing the information kids need). Up to now, it's very similar to a webquest, isn't it? Fair enough, you are right, but now comes the trick: the last question in your list should be what we call THE GREAT QUESTION. It's a question whose answer is not available in the resources you've chosen...they have to work it out themselves from the actual information they have. That's the best part, really.
Usually, you don't need more than a session to get the job done. Kids learn a lot and they have fun. You'd be amazed at the results. And you can use a treasure hunt to work about all the subjects you can imagene (in English as much as in their native language). Take a look at this example. It's a treasure hunt about Maths:
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY 3D?
I’m sure you all have heard about this. But do you really know what it
means? What does people mean by “dimensions”? Let’s take a look around to know
a little more about this. We may discover that some things come in two
dimensions, whereas other things come in what we call 3D. Are you ready for the
hunt? So, there we go!!
1 What’s a 2D Shape like?
Examples of 2D.
What’s the meaning of 3D
Examples of things that
come in 3D.
What’s the name of the
science that studies shapes?
And
now… the big question….
Is it possible to find anything 1D?
Difficult?
I’m sure it isn`t!! Just take a look at these sites and I’m sure you’ll get it
done in no time. Good luck and….let’s go for the treasure!!!
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