By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)
Internet Scavenger Hunt Collection, Volume 1 (Biography, Reference & More!)
This is collection of 5 online scavenger hunts (WITH KEYS). These exercises use powerful, compelling contexts that develop research, literacy, and analytic skills.
The collection includes ...
- Biography 1 & 2 (Online biographies of leaders, educators, musicians, and more!)
- Reference 1 (Online reference sites like the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, CIA World FactBook, RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary, etc.)
- Schoolhouse Rock 1 (Introduce your students to classics like "Interjection!", "I'm Just A Bill", and "Sufferin' 'Till Suffrage"!)
- Visual Geometry 1 (Find real-world examples of geometric shapes and solids!)
This resource is published as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to allow flexible printing. We also would love for you to edit and add questions to tailor the hunts to your students' interests, and to your current studies!
Derrick Brown's Bio
Derrick Brown is currently the Principal Consultant for KnowledgeBase - an educational publisher. Mr. Brown has published a digital catalog of more than 70 short films, learning games, visual dictionaries, poems, essays, newsletters, inspirational posters, and projects. He has also delivered more than 30 presentations, workshops, keynote addresses, and invited lectures at conferences, high schools, colleges, universities, and churches.
From 2004-2010, he served as a founding faculty member, governing board representative, Director of Corporate Relations, Dean of Students, and Assistant Principal of Tech High (Charter) School in Atlanta GA.
Mr. Brown founded KnowledgeBase, Inc., in 1998, and served as its full-time executive director until 2004. KnowledgeBase's mission is to educate and to empower people by creating content that enhances their reading, writing, math, entrepreneurial, leadership, and critical thinking (problem solving) skills.
He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from Clemson University in December 1991. He then worked for The MITRE Corporation's (Reston, VA) Signal Processing and Advanced Technology Department for one year before beginning graduate studies at Georgia Tech, where he received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in March 1994.
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