Lesson Plan - Scavenger Hunt                   

Weather Watchers can also become a classroom Internet Scavenger Hunt through the use of task cards. The teacher should search for web sites correlating with the unit studied and book mark appropriate sites. The teacher should then create questions found in those sites and prepare task cards with directions for students to use to locate information and answer questions. Students can locate the sites by using the book marks or typing in the URL of each site.

The learning focus:

• To learn Internet navigation and research skills
• To learn about the causes of violent weather such as thunderstorms, hurricanes and lightning

Component  

                                                                                                                                                                                              The student will use a variety of technology sources, Internet and online encyclopedias, books, and magazines to conduct research and collect information.

Objectives

1. The students will use task cards to direct him to various weather web sites to locate and compile information about thunderstorms, lightning, and hurricanes.
2. The students will use data collected from Internet task cards to make an oral presentation to the class; this data will be used later in a multimedia presentation.

Evaluation     

                                                                                                                                                                                              The students will use information collected from Internet task cards to make an oral presentation to the class.

Task Cards for Scavenger Hunt

At this point, students will be able to construct their own task cards using these weather sites:

Storm Tracker

NOAA Weather

Miami Museum of Science Hurricane

USA Today Weather