Scavenger hunts are a great way to have students apply their skills and knowledge by finding examples of the concepts they’ve been working with. A scavenger hunt works well for any grade level and subject area because you can customize your list of scavenger hunt items to whatever skills or knowledge your students are working on.
All you need to do is identify the concepts that you’d like your students to “find”/demonstrate and put the list of items into a template. For example, you might ask students to find: a 4-digit number, multiplication, an increasing pattern. Students can then “hunt” for examples in their notebook, textbook, around the classroom, around the school, or even outdoors if it’s appropriate for your topic and situation. This activity tends to involve some movement, which is a nice added benefit!
I’ve found some good Seesaw scavenger hunt activities created by other teachers and now created some of my own templates to share. The beauty of a tool like Seesaw is that students have many ways to show their examples: they could take a picture, write with pens, type their response or even take a video.
Tech Tools
This project works well with a variety of tools. Some tools you might consider include:
- Book Creator
- Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint
- Seesaw
- GooseChase
Resources
Here are a few of my favorite scavenger hunt activities in Seesaw, plus my templates that you can customize for your students:
- Single Page Scavenger Hunt Template by Leah Obach
- Multipage Scavenger Hunt Template by Leah Obach
- Colour Scavenger Hunt by Ronit Shapiro
- Text Features Scavenger Hunt by Mary Klempke
- 3D Shapes Scavenger Hunt Activity by Kirsten Lofton
- Math Scavenger Hunt by Leah Obach
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