How Can Scavenger Hunt Be Used In Schools To Introduce A New Concept To The Students?

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It is much easier to use games to introduce a new idea to the students. To turn on the students to do some research, Scavenger hunt can be used to give a quick start. For example, to make students learn the facts about a new country or the rules about a new game, teachers can provide the students with a list of question and a hint to the book in the library. The students can be divided into a number of teams and in this way the spirit of the game will be kept alive as well as the students will learn about a new thing.

To encourage the use of internet and to help students gain ease in using search engines for searching in their daily lives, they are given a topic with some questions and they have to use search engine to search for the answers for the related topic. This gives two hidden benefits; a whole new topic is introduced to the students and the skills of using World Wide Web also increases. Students are also amused as the spirit of Scavenger hunt is also revived. This technique is fairly useful and efficient in Elementary schools and for students of less then 14 years.