One morning in our TPTE486 class, we were assigned to go on a scavenger hunt...but this was no average scavenger hunt. After being placed in groups according to content area (mine was the Literacy group), we were told to go around the education complex and nearby on campus to take pictures of things that were on our hunt list. The hunt was somewhat challenging, as not everything on our list was something concrete like "water bottle." Instead, we had prompts like, "a misspelled word" and, "a synonym for 'huge.'" However, being the English-major champs that we are, we were able to come up with some pretty creative snapshots. Here are the pictures we took from our hunt (captions tell what item on the list the picture's subject fulfills):
Scavenger Hunt Album
On its own, I thought the activity was great for team building and for waking up our creative minds. However, when used as a hook/set/what have you, it was a great introduction for using Picasa Web and Google Presentations, which I will be blogging about separately :)
Overall, I think this would be a great activity to have during the first few days of class to help foster a class community vibe. The scavenger hunt could be adapted to fit subject area, or just meet/greet topics for the start of the year.
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