I decided to do my internet scavenger hunt on diseases since we study them in science. I started with questions on diseases we studied in class to help the students get started, but I branched out into others to get them exploring. I chose to use the Mayo Clinic's Diseases and Conditions website as the internet resource so my students won't be trolling all over the internet looking for answers. I think this will simplify their search and provide them with the opportunity to spend some time on the site exploring other diseases that they might be interested in.
I took the answers to my internet scavenger hunt and used the Discovery Education Puzzle Maker to create a word search for the students to find their answers. This was a fairly simple way for me to get my students searching a database and researching diseases. Overall, I was able to easily and efficiently make a worksheet using Discovery Education and Google Docs. I found it to be simple and I didn't get hung up on the same formatting issues that sometimes arise when working with Microsoft Word.
Like many of the other assignments, the part that took the longest was creating the questions. If I already had a bank of questions or words, creating the puzzle and document would go rather quickly. I will definitely use this again with my classes!
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