webhound leader's guide:
Activity Sequence
Scavenger Hunt

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Materials

• Webhound guide (print version)
• Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
• Multimedia Computer connected to Internet
• Web browser software
• Whiteboard, flipchart, or other means to write text for the participants to see

Approximate Time

This section should take around 25 minutes.

Procedures

1. Tell the participants that they will get some experience using different web sites as they look for specific items provided by the webhound. It may be worthwhile to offer prizes!
   
   
2. Demonstrate how they can return to the webhound home page by selecting Webhound from the Bookmarks pull-down menu. Have each of them return to this page by using the bookmark. They should then click the hypertext link to the Scavenger Hunt.
   
   
3. Provide the instructions for the hunt.

   This page has links to 10 different web sites and under each listing is a request for a particular piece of information. You will have to do a bit of exploring from each site to find the information (it will not always be on the first screen). Find as many answers as you can in 15 minutes.

4. Demonstrate the first item, from the Government of Canada site:
   
   
1. I first click on the link labeled:
       http://canada.gc.ca/
   
   
2. There are two language options for these pages. I will click on English.
3. Next I see a list of Contents for the site. I am looking for find information about the Canadian War Museum. It might be part of some government office.
4. I click on and scroll down the page until I see an entry for the Canadian War Museum.
5. From this link I can find the location of the museum (Ottowa) from the heading of "General Information" and you can find when it opened (1880) by looking under "History". I write down this information in the space provided on the worksheet.
   
   
5. After 20 minutes, ask everybody to stop. Find out who has discovered the most answers and have them read them off. Compare the results to the answers provided in this guide.

The tasks were made easier since the webhound provided the first locations to start looking. It would have been more difficult without it. Part of being a webhound is learning to identify good starting points.

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