Spanish+Scavenger+Hunts

=Activity Description: = This is a combination of three online scavenger hunts. The first two scavenger hunts are for Spanish one students. The third scavenger hunt is designed for Spanish three students. The scavenger hunts combine creating online activities, coloring, drawing, reading books, and playing online games. All of the activities are related directly to lessons done in the classroom. =Principles of Learning: = =Learning Objectives: =
 * 1) Active, Critical Learning Principle: Activities are set up to encourage active and not passive learning.
 * 2) Semiotic Principle: Students learn to appreciate multiple sign systems in which images, symbols, and words are used together to learn.
 * 3) Committed Learning Principle: Students use a virtual space to participate in extended learning opportunities.
 * 4) Achievement Principle: There are rewards and ongoing achievements within the online games.
 * 5) Practice Principle: Students are given multiple opportunities to practice in a virtual space.
 * 6) Multiple Routes Principle: Students have the opportunity to personalize the activities and make choices which meet their learning needs.
 * 7) Multimodal Principle: Learning takes place through multiple modes such as images, games, interactions, and sounds.
 * 8) Incremental Principle: The scavenger hunts require more vocabulary as you progress rom one to three.
 * 9) Discovery Principle: Learners are taken to places where discovery opportunities are abundant.
 * 10) Cultural Models about the World Principle: In the third scavenger hunt learners come to think consciously about how their culture differs and complements cultures in different countries.
 * 1) Students will learn and review simple Spanish vocabulary.
 * 2) Students will review vocabulary from previous lessons, but in a game environment.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will learn about the culture of a South American country.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will learn to create simple activities such as crosswords and word-searches.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will learn about locating resources to learn Spanish on their own.

= <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online Spanish Scavenger Hunt I =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1. Write five to ten different words you already know in Spanish. You can do more if you want.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Go to the website: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a Criss Cross Puzzle using 5 words you know in Spanish.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make sure to print this out and put your name on it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Go to [|www.studyspanish.com], go to the vocabulary page and find “Small Animals”.On the back of the sheet where you have your criss cross puzzle draw 3 of the animals and label them in Spanish.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Take a test on the animals using [|www.studyspanish.com] and going to “Big Animals” and going down to test. Don’t submit the test just do the questions and print it out.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Go to [] and play the first Spanish game. What is it called? _. Did you pass it? Yes or no?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Go to [] and pick one of the coloring pages to color. You will need to print them out. If you are having problems with your colors in Spanish go to []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Go to [] and read a Clifford book in Spanish.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Find cool Spanish learning websites and let me know about them so we can get to them latter. Find at least 3.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online Spanish Scavenger Hunt II
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Write five to nine different words about the weather or verbs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Go to the website: [] create a criss-cross-puzzle or word search using the words from #1.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make sure to print this out and put your name on it.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have another classmate solve it and write their name on it too.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Go to [] and take the page with your result on it. Make sure you have at least an 80% before you print it out.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Go to [] and play “Rags to Riches” Print out the page once you have won the 1,000,000 dollars.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Go to [] and print and color one of the coloring sheets. Staple it to your other documents.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Choose and play two of these games.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Find a website in which you can listen to music in Spanish.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Name of site: ...............................................

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Name three current actors/actresses who speak Spanish.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Go to [] and read a book in Spanish.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Name of book: ...............................................

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online Spanish Scavenger Hunt III
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Pick one Spanish speaking country : ............................................... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some of the best options are Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Chile. Others may work too but there might be less data. You can do this in groups of two people and work together.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Find the flags of three bordering countries and draw them below.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. List three major grocery/department stores in you Spanish speaking country.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">website: ...............................................
 * website:...............................................
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">website: ...............................................

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. What are the top 10 songs in that country this week?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. What is the current data for your country?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Population: ...............................................
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Users: ...............................................
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Facebook Subscribers: ...............................................

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. What is best selling car in your country? (Check out Matt’s Blog)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Name three of the most popular people born in your country: > <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Do you know any of them? Yes No - if yes then who?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pick a Corious George game and play it. Print the only the results page of the page where it says you won, only first page. []
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Choose an activity from the Quia site and complete it. Print the only the results page of the page where it says you won, only first page. []
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> These are the last game options. When you are done, print results page and staple them to the back of this page. []