What is an Internet Treasure Hunt?
In its simplest form, a treasure hunt is a list of questions, with links to web sites that provide the answers. Of course, the quality of the activity increases as you increase the quality of your questions, and of the web resources that students visit. How do you create an Internet Treasure Hunt? Come up with a list of questions that are related to your content area and that require higher-level thinking and problem solving. Find web sites that provide information students need to formulate quality answers or solutions. Combine these questions and web links on a web page, provide some instructions and structure to guide the students to the desired final outcomes, and upload your web page to a web server. What are the characteristics of a great Internet Treasure Hunt? Questions that require extensive research and problem solving (it should not resemble questions at the end of a textbook chapter). Web resources that go beyond simple text information and that take advantage of the streng
