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General, Public, School Media Specialist

Check out the Minitex digital scavenger hunts

stolen%20treasureAre you having trouble engaging students with ELM Resources? Do they enjoy finding clues and completing missions? Do they like to be the hero in their own adventure? Look no further than the Minitex Digital Scavenger Hunts! The “Scavenger Hunts are a collection of stories designed to require an adventurous dive into ELM database content in order to solve a mystery, rescue a team, or open a snack stand. Choose from one or more of the following adventures and win badges for completing the missions.” The content looks fun AND gets students exploring ELM Resources.

What is ELM you ask? “The Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) is a collection of databases available to Minnesota schools, libraries, and residents. The ELM databases give Minnesota residents online access to magazine, journal, newspaper, encyclopedia articles, multimedia and more on a vast array of subjects. ELM is brought to you by your local library or school media center, Minitex, and State Library Services, the Minnesota state library agency, with state appropriations to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Minnesota Department of Education, and federal LSTA funds under the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.”

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Academic, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

A Guide to Digital Scavenger Hunts

Image by Anna-Stina. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons' licensing.
Image by Anna-Stina. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing.

According to the folks at Edudemic, “a high quality hunt should have the goal of inspiring learning, creative thinking, reasoning, and qualitative assessment.” Student engagement and active learning are the big goals too.  Sounds very much like information literacy to me and lots of fun too. In an effort to get your scavenger hunt jump-started, this guide offers  a few useful tech tools that might be of use. They range from devices to apps to other blog posts on the subject. Read the Edudemic blog post to link to lesson plans and simple ideas to further explore this fascinating idea. If you develop a digital scavenger hunt, we’d love to hear about it and share with our readers…..let us know at cmle@stcloudstate.edu and thanks for sharing!