Digital Scavenger Hunts
What is a digital scavenger hunt? Finding and presenting real world or creative examples of educational concepts using digital tools. Students can photograph what they find, draw, or act out during the course of the scavenger hunt.
There are three parts to a digital scavenger hunt: the list, the hunt, and the share.
There are three parts to a digital scavenger hunt: the list, the hunt, and the share.
The List
The key with the list is to ensure that the items that the students are hunting for demonstrate their learning and mastery of a concept. Your list should require the students to think through the concept and take images that express what they have learned.
Examples are things like an antonym hunt where students search for words and then the antonym of those words. If they are able to take pictures of them both they understand what the antonym of a given word is. Another example is a shape hunt, where students look for real world examples of given shapes. Here is an example of a shape hunt for 2nd grade.
Tools for the List include:
Examples are things like an antonym hunt where students search for words and then the antonym of those words. If they are able to take pictures of them both they understand what the antonym of a given word is. Another example is a shape hunt, where students look for real world examples of given shapes. Here is an example of a shape hunt for 2nd grade.
Tools for the List include:
- Paper list
- Reminders app
- Evernote
- Google Document
In order to maintain classroom management while students are up and moving around, its important to establish good ground rules. Here is an example rules document.
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The Hunt
Students then have to actually take the pictures to demonstrate their knowledge. There are several tools that can help with this.
Camera App
Students can take pictures with the built in camera app. It is easy to use and has some basic editing features. |
Photo Booth
The photo booth app may usually be thought of as a goofy picture app, but a few of its settings can help narrow the frame of the pictures taken. |
Skitch
Skitch is a free app, that allows you to annotate the pictures that you take in order to better explain what the picture represents. |
The Share
Students need to present back their knowledge, and demonstrate their skills. There are several apps that can help them with this process.
Photos App
For a quick and simple solution students can use the built in slideshow feature and share their images back with the class. |
Animoto
Animoto makes creating a presentation with photos or short videos very easy. It has a very polished look when completed. |
Educreations
Educreations can be utilized to create a video slideshow, using the pictures that the students took. The white board tools allow students to annotate images after the fact if they did not use a tool like skitch. |