GEOG: Canadian Treasure Hunt -- Network Nuggets


	* [[[ CANADIAN TREASURE HUNT WEBQUEST ]]] * http://www.sd68.bc.ca/fore/webquests/canada/hunt.htm Several readers have suggested Web sites to help teach the earliest grades about Canada. Here is one that fills the bill: a Webquest for Grade 2-4 students that sends them on a Web treasure hunt to determine a mystery Canadian location. It should work if two or three students are at each networked computer. If you have fewer computers, add a station like the wall map activity below. The Webquest engages the students in reading as it sends them to different Canadian Web sites for clues. To be successful, students have to follow instructions exactly as printed on screen -- a fine skill developer at this age! For some Grade 2s the reading level will be high, but the sites seem appropriate for Grades 3 and 4, mixing attractive yet small graphics with easy-reading text. All selected sites appear permanent enough for use this year and next, and are useful to know about in their own right. Teachers should follow the online Webquest with a more concrete representation of the knowledge gained, like placing pins on a wall map or determining the distance in kilometres from one location to the next. Methinks that this Webquest would work for students outside Canada as well, assuming that the curriculum for 8- through 10-year-olds includes exposure to another country. Its author invites other classrooms to participate with his class in the Webquest. The Canadian Treasure Hunt was designed by Darrell Letourneau, who teaches at Forest Park Elementary School in (big, big hint here) Nanaimo, British Columbia; he was assisted by students in his class and in two other schools. It's in the Project Gallery at "Profiling Canada", Statistics Canada's contribution to SchoolNet's GrassRoots program. You can view other submissions at "ttp://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/grassroots/grass1.htm. ---------------------- Network Nuggets is a free service of the Community Learning Network Website (http://www.cln.org/) and the Open Learning Agency of British Columbia (http://www.openschool.bc.ca/). We send these messages to subscribers of CLN's Network Nuggets, to inform them of potentially useful educational resources on the Web -- but we can't guarantee that these resources will be valuable and without frustrations. To Subscribe/Unsubscribe: "ttp://www.cln.org/lists/nuggets/subscribe.html Dave Rogers, temporarily moderating Network Nuggets while regular editor Bobbie Rollins is on vacation... ("ailto:Nuggets@cln.etc.bc.ca)