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Internet Hunt Activities created by Cindy O'Hora The Internet is an enormous collection of answers. The challenge is to find them. Completing an Internet hunt will develop your web browsing skills. You will learn lots of interesting stuff. You will harness powerful web site tools like databases to obtain fresh information. You will use this data to answer challenging, thinking required questions. Oh, what fun! Before you begin, broaden your web browsing skills by checking out my tips on Getting Back. |
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How to Use these activities: Create a link from your class/school web page to this index page
or to the individual hunt page. OR Bookmark this site. OR
You can type the address of a hunt page in the browser location
bar. Answer forms: Do the Digital Answer Format OR Print the hunt for an answer sheet. OR Use the printer
friendly worksheets. OR Have the students number down a lined sheet
of paper. OR Consult the Make your own answer form how to.
Goldilocks Web tip: You can easily adjust your view of the text on a page. If you think the words are too small: Safari - Go: View .. Make Text bigger or Mac - hold down the command key |
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and press the + key (plus sign) or Windows use Ctrl .. + key. Firefox - Go: View .. Text Size. Conversely, if you think it is too big do the same, but choose smaller or Mac | Index | Computers - 54 |
Social
Studies & Civics - 100 |
Months &
Holidays - 40 |
Air and Air Pollution facts
Basic Body Internet Hunt 4th up
Bats are our Buddies - about bats utd 10/09
Biodiversity Exploration Plant Investigation
Birds - learn about our feathered friends.
Birds Exploration 6-9th utd 4/08
Bugs Hunt - 3-6 What's bugging you? revised
Bullfrogs & Amphibians Internet activity
Butterfly and Moth facts hunt utd 9/07 Part 2
The Cell - Internet activity
Chemistry and Chemists MS/HS
Considering Systems and Controls
Crude Oil is more than gasoline pbl
Drought Presentation - pbl
Earth's Layer s Online Activity utd 4/09
Eggs Hunt - primary utd 2/2010
Oviparous Frayer worksheet doc | pdf
Eggs Facts Hunt - int/ms
Energy Alternatives Exploration
Environmental Exploration Activity utd 10/09
Environmentalists Internet Hunt
Fishy Facts Internet Activity major revision 7/09
Health Research Project ms/hs
Heart Facts Hunt revised 1/10 - also Heart idioms exercise
Infectious disease research project
Investigating Insects Hunt - insect hunt gr 5 - 8
Investigating Insects Hunt Part 2 rigor raised 5/09
Inventors and Inventions utd 11/08
Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies
Moving Out Hunt - animal migration utd 9/09
Newton and the Laws of Motion utd 3/09
Prairie Ecosystem Activity utd 1/06
Rainforest Scavenger Hunt for 3rd gr. by L Stephan & T Pearson
Rocks and Minerals fact hunt utd 4/09
Scientific Method Activity - Try the Quiz
Screech Owls Activity based on the book by C. Lamm
Observation: Science skills builders: 40+ activities
September Science Internet Activity
Tree Facts Internet Activity - Leaf it to me!
Water cycle, Groundwater, Fresh water activity 4-8
Learn about Watershed Activity - Try Lentic or Lotic Ecosystems
Weather Internet Hunt utd 3/09
Women of Science Internet Hunt utd 3/09
Worm Hunt - It should be easy to catch them! utd 3/09
Challenging Activities & resources on other websites
The Future Channels integrating math science and career exploration
Hunts: Arts / Social Studies / Months & Holidays / Literature / Civics Projects and Essays / Problem and Project Based Learning
Frequently Asked Questions
about these hunts. I do not provide answer keys.
As I work on the web, I come across hundreds
of remarkable web sites. I
have collected some of them in these links.
Pennsylvania Environment and Ecology Education | Preparing
Your Daughter or Son for the Next Century
Many thanks to WBRE
for the feature article in Making the Grade.
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Updated September 1, 2010, Originally Posted 3/1999 Frequently Asked Questions
Save a tree - use a Digital Answer Format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font (avoid Symbol, 
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or other ornate artistic fonts). Save frequently as you work. Enter your name and the date, in the header of the document. Submit your document via electronic dropbox or email attachment. Bad things happen. Always save a copy of your work on your computer. Or perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it.
Copyright ©1999 Cynthia J. O'Hora. Feel free to link to or bookmark any individual web page. Educators and individuals may print a hunt, for use in a classroom setting. January 7th, 2007 - I have decided to release some of my works to public domain. Look at the bottom of a page to find the notice of copyright. I continue to retain a full copyright protection on the majority of my work. That is noted on the individual works. Use of the materials here constitutes an agreement with the Terms of Use.
Terms of Use: I am providing some of the hunts in PDF. You'll need a free pdf program to use them like Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may print the web page or the pdf copy for an answer sheet in a class. Using Mac OSX. More information at the bottom of this web page.