Salam everyone,
(Salam: Peace in Arabic, used for greetings)
This week I have a more simple blog, for the days when you feel like lecturing would send your students to misery, try Internet Scavenger Hunt. 😹💗
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What is the internet Scavenger Hunt?
It is an activity that teachers can use to practice students' internet searching skills for the information they would need.
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For anything in the world, you can adjust things to make them more suitable for your class.
Research Internet Scavenger Hunt
How to do it?
1. Decide the focus you want your students to work on.
2. Find websites relevant to your intended topic (choose at least 5 topics and you can increase the more advanced your students are)
3. Create a set of questions relevant to your topic, which students can find answers for on the websites you provided.
4. You can choose to do this in groups or with each student on their own.
* I think in groups wouldn't help students learn the skill of searching the internet because at the end one student will be controlling the computer.
Example of the activity:
We are learning about robin birds, and here are some websites to start your search
List of websites to search for information
Questions
1. Do robins migrate?
2. What is the age of the oldest American Robin?
3. What type of food do robins usually eat?
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Relevance to learning and teaching English
- This activity is part of the discovery and active learning, students will learn how to become more independent when searching for information they need, and they will also learn to be more critical of what they see on the internet.
- Teachers can apply this in classes teaching writing research essays, to teach how to look for credible sources.
limitations
- Might be dangerous to let students go unsupervised when looking for online information.
- Teachers can't monitor all students all the time.
Would you use it in your class? let me know :)
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Robin bird is really cute. I never heard about this website before, I think it is good but I will not use it in my class, as it need students to have tablet with them. And the website finding tool can make it quite easy to do the task I think.
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