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Last Updated: October 03, 2024

Develop Scavenger Hunts with Gale In Context

Scavenger hunt activities provide students with a guided research experience designed to increase their subject matter knowledge through exploration of a wide range of content types including textual, multimedia, primary sources, and statistics. View our session to learn how you can develop scavenger hunts to guide students through your Gale In Context resources, as well as where to find our pre-made activities.
Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our session.

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Today is focusing on how you can develop

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scavenger hunts for your students using Gale

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in context. My name is Amber

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Winters and I am a senior training consultant

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here with Gale.

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So our agenda for today's 30 minute webinar

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is first going to just talk why scavenger

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hunts, what they are, why

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we've chosen to use this type of activity

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within Gillen context. Then we'll

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talk about the development process.

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how we like to do it here at Gale as trainers

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build quite a few different scavenger hunts.

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So we'll go through how we like to do it some

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best practices as you start to build out your

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own. And we'll actually walk through

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what the process looks like live as well.

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So we're going to get into one of the gal and context

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resources kind of explore how

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you can really build out these scavenger hunts to

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best fit your students in your classroom

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needs.

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At towards the end of the session, I'll show

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you where you can find our premade scavenger hunts. As

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I mentioned, the training team builds

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a lot of scavenger hunts So you may not even

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need to make one on your own. We may have a scavenger

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hunt for your topic already

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created and listed on our support site. So we'll take

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a look at that a little bit later on.

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And then at the very end of the session, I have some contact

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information for you if you need to reach out to

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us for anything.

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Um

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Again, feel free to ask questions at any time

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using the Q and A box. And if we get a little

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bit overwhelmed with questions, we'll hold

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off until this wrap up and I'll answer any

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remaining questions for you.

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So let's go ahead and get started. So, what

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are scavenger hunts? Exactly. So

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scavenger hunts are guided activities

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that are designed to support students as they explore

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one specific topic

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within these scavenger hunts. Each of the questions

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is a new step in the scavenger

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hunt. It's looking at a new piece of content.

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So the goal here is to guide

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students, help them click on their own and kind

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of navigate the resources on their own, but

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guide them to specific bits of information

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you want them to know about.

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And we also want students engaging with different

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content types, which is a great way we

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like to use these scavenger hunts within Galen context

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is if you take a look at this screenshot I have here,

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we have them reading a reference article. Of course,

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that's something you would expect out of a gal in context

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resource. But we also have them

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listening to an audio file. I believe this is

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a podcast. Don't quote me on that, but we

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have them listen to an audio file and we also have

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them going here to the images section.

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So Scavenger Hunts are really designed to

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take students through

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a wide variety of content in a really

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simple way. So they're still building

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their own research skills because they are navigating

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through the platform. You know, you're not

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printing out four articles, have them read,

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you're still having them navigate, but you're really

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providing a step by step to make

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it seem more accessible and make it seem

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a little bit more safe. Of course, the research

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research process

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can be a little bit frustrating, a little bit confusing

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for students. So we kind of use this as a step by

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step, help for students to kind of navigate

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through when

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we were talking specifically about using scavenger

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hunts within gill in context. But we

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really like to use this kind of formatting

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because we have these nice topic pages.

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If we have a screenshot here on this left hand side

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that are curated for different topics.

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the most studied the most used terms

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and topics within each of our resources.

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And these are found within all Galen context,

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resources all the way from Galen

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context, elementary up to high school

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as well. As all of our more subject

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specific resources like

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us, history, world history, environmental

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studies, things like that.

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So we really like to use these topic pages when

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we're building our scavenger hunts because each

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of these pages have a summary

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kind of at the right, right at the top of the page here. So

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this is a good way to start off the scavenger

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hunt is have students read this quick

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summary, find a, a question that you

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think would be helpful to get them started.

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But then underneath that, we also have content

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buckets here that list all of the different

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content types we have available for this particular

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topic.

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So you can actually direct students to these

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different topic, or sorry content

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buckets, instead of having them,

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you know, run search after search and hopefully they

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find the, the articles that you found. Of

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course, students are going to search differently.

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This is really going to help them point and click to find

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those different bits of content.

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And this is what you see. This is what

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students see. It's something I like to point out as well.

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So, as you work through and

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build out your scavenger hunt, you're going to see

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how your students are going to click through. So

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if you decide to tell them to click into a viewpoints,

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right here, this viewpoint bucket

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you're going to see

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how they're going to click into that, you're going to see the articles

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they see. So it's a nice way to make sure

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again, students are discovering

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the information they need, they're still discovering

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it on their own, but you're guiding them,

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you're helping them with that discovery.

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Now, let's just talk about the process here.

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So how we get started before we even get going

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with these scavenger hunts, especially

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if you have a lot of in context, resources.

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Sometimes that can be a little bit overwhelming.

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So just first what you want to do, of course,

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this is optional, but we actually have a premade

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template on our support site ready to go for

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you. So if you don't want to have to kind of re invent

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the wheel, you just want to kind of plug

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in the information that you have.

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You can do that. Give me one second here. I'm

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posting this link into

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our chat if anyone needs it.

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There we go.

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Um So again optional,

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but you might want to consider downloading this template.

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It's actually saved on our support site as

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a powerpoint, which makes it a little bit easier

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to kind of edit and move these

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texts and these numbers around to best suit

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your scavenger hunt.

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Once you have your template or you make your own,

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you know, if you want to tweak a little bit,

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make sure you choose what in context resource

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you want to use. We always recommend when

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you're building these scavenger hunts to only use,

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one resource just because

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it's sometimes difficult to have students clicking

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back and forth between, Gale in context,

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middle school and gale in context science

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and maybe trying to navigate back and forth. We

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always recommend just choose the best

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fit resource

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if you're not quite sure what the best fit resource

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is.

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Um, I would suggest taking a look at our support

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site, which we'll go over a little bit later to see

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what's included in each resource. But

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another way to see if the resource is going to be

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a best fit is to check for a topic page.

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Our scavenger hunts don't require a topic

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page. Of course, you can just pull content by running

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searches and browsing and things like that.

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But as a best practice, the trainers

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here, we really prefer to use these topic

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pages because that ensures every

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student is starting on the same exact spot

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and they're going to see the same information

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here. So really again, to

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get started,

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have you, your template ready to go

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choose your in context resource? You may do

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that just because you know it, you've

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been using gale in context forever or

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you may want to jump into a few different resources

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and see which one has a topic page and which

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one has a topic page that covers

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your topic and the way you want it to be covered

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if that makes sense because of course, if we're looking

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at something like gale in context, opposing

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viewpoints versus gale in context science,

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you know, if you're looking at a science topic, but maybe

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you're really trying to get it from that science

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point of view, from the facts, from the

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statistics, things like that

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you may want Gale In Context: Science. But if

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you're learning about a scientific topic from

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a current event standpoint, you know how

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global climate change is affecting us, you

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may want to take a look at

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints. So

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just make sure you

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know where you want to go ahead of time, have

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your resource, try to find a topic

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page if you can and then you'll go ahead

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and get started.

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So let's work through this together. Now, I'm

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going to actually kind of

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double up my screen here a little

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bit. I

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prefer to use this, this over

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here.

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Um I prefer to use two monitors. So if you have

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two monitors available to you, I would suggest

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using them as you move through this

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this activity here.

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But I'm going to keep everything just on the one

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today. So it'll look

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a little bit smushed and I'm sorry about that. But

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I want you guys to kind of see

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how we navigate through building

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these scavenger hunts. So I've already

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pulled up the template. If you download the template

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with the link that I shared

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in the chat, this is what you're going to see

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here. Again, we've made it just an editable powerpoint

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to make it simple to navigate through. If

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you're using Google slides, it's gonna easily be exported

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to Google slides as well.

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So first thing we want to do on the left side of

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the page of the screen here, I just chose

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to use G and context opposing viewpoints today.

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But if you don't have this resource, this

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walk through that we're going to go through works. The exact

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same for all of your resources.

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I will say Gil in context elementary looks

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slightly different because of course, we've built

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it out for young students.

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So it's a little more kind of point and

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click a little more user user friendly in that

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sense. But

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the navigation in the platform still functions

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the same. So whatever resource you're planning on

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using,

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you're going to do it the same way here.

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So you'll see on my scavenger hunt here.

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It first asks me to enter my topic. So

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you wanna make sure you have a clear topic in mind

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as you start to click through this. Of course,

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you want to try to make it as specific as possible.

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You know, if you're learning about hurricanes, you'll

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see. We have our presidential elections

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topic page fold forward here today.

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Um For anyone watching this recorded, we are

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currently in October, so we're really

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kind of gearing up towards that election. So we

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have that highlighted here,

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you'll enter your resource name here

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and then we'll go through. And with these

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templates, we do have our templates designed

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to use a topic page,

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um, with the Scavenger hunt.

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So if you're not going to use a topic page, if you're just

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going to search and pull content, that way you

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will need to edit this because you won't be guiding

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your students to a specific topic page.

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You know, you may just give them instructions

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um on how to run a basic search or maybe

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your instruction is, you know, click this link

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to access the resource. But

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for our templates, we always include here that

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they're going to be navigating into a topic page.

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Now, let's click back over here to g in context,

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opposing viewpoints

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and I want to scroll down. If you are planning on using

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a topic page, there are a few ways you can find

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it. You can of course, look at

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our issues of interest if you don't have anything in mind.

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And I will actually pause here. I didn't mention it

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before. But um, these scavenger hunts

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are great for sub plans, especially

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if your students are comfortable within the gal

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and context resources. These are nice

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to hand out and have ready to go because they can click

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into whatever topic and navigate

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on their own. So just a quick aside there,

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but again, if we're looking

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for a topic page, we can look at our issues of interest.

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I can also scroll down here

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and you'll see we have these different, issues.

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We have them called within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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and each of these different

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issues is a topic page.

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So if I don't know exactly what I want, but I know

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whatever I want is kind of in the realm of science

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and tech. I can click here

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and browse through the topic pages. I have available.

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Of course, these lists get pretty extensive because we

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have a lot of topic pages here within

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each of our in context resources. So a lot

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of times it's easier to run a search. So

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you can still find topic pages within our search.

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I'm going to go today for artificial

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intelligence, something we talk about

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frequently, right?

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So when I start typing in my search here,

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you'll see this first predictive

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text I have tells me it's a topic

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guide, you'll see, it gives me this little picture

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that kind of differentiates it from the rest of

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these

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pre predictive texts.

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So anytime there's a topic page that's related

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to the search, I'm starting, it'll pop

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up up top here.

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And with this nice picture which I think is really nice for

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students to have this visual. So they know

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if they click on something with a picture

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which we're going to do artificial intelligence,

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they're going to be pulled forward to the topic page instead

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of just a standard search results page.

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And I'm actually going to just decrease the

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size of this screen just a tiny bit just

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so we can see everything.
sorry, it's

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probably a little bit small. But, since

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we're kind of splitting our screen here,

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so now we're on a topic page here

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and you can direct students to topic pages in

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a few different ways. You'll see, um,

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on our templates, we actually

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tell them how to click onto the browse topics

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and then open the topic page with the

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topic of your choice. You

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can also choose to use get link instead

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and post the link here instead of

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these step by steps. So this get

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link is found at the top of the page here

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and it's a persistent URL. So you can copy and

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paste this here and tell you just tell your students, you know,

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you're starting here. This is the password.

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If your students don't already know how to sign into G and

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context resources,

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you know, you can give them the password here.

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but they can just click right into this and they're

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going to be pulled to this same

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topic page that you're currently on.

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Now, once we're on the topic page here, just a little lay

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of the land if you haven't seen a topic page recently,

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Again at the very top is our

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overview and then underneath are all

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of these different great content. Buckets.

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And for me, these are really what

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makes scavenger hunt development so easy

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within gill in context,

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I'll start off. Generally, I'm going

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to click, read more in this overview

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and I'll usually have students read through this

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overview

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and then I'll find

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one or two questions. I want to ask them on the scavenger

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hunt you'll see here. we could have

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just one question. So if I just want to ask,

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you know, what is artificial intelligence, I

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can do that or I can put two. And

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then we always have here a spot

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for students to include their source

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because we want to make sure that they

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understand how to cite the materials they're

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pulling. Even though technically you walked

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them to where they are, they still

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need to know how to pull that source citation. So we always

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include source here

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and what's great is within all of our in context

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resources. They can actually pull the citation

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right off the platform

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right up top here in our toolbar is our citation

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feature

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and they can choose their edition Elaap, a

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Chicago or Harvard.

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And then they can copy and paste it right here

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into the source section.

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Of course, if they are doing this written,

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then they'll write down the source, but they'll still

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have it here.

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And as you walk through, I recommend filling

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out an answer guide as well as

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you walk through each question instead of kind of trying to do

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the answer guide at the end.

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you'll see at the end of our scavenger hunt

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template here

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is our answer guide

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or our, um, answer sheet.

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So you can put in your own answers and put in your own

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source.

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It's easier to do it as you walk through the questions

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as opposed to trying to go back and do it at the very end.

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So again, generally the first one I

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I will say select the blue read more button

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under the title. So that's

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you jump back here

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right here. That's going to open up that overview

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for them. And that's almost always my

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first stop for students that's giving them

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the base of this topic

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to kind of get them to understand what they're going to be learning

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about from there.

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It's really up to you what you want

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students to click into.

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And of course, these content buckets are going to vary

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based on the topic you're looking at as

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well as based on the resource

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itself. So these viewpoints sections

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you're not going to find in our other resources

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because they're specific to Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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and Gale In Context: Global Issues

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So if you have your students within Gale In Context: High School

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let's say you

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won't see these viewpoints, but you'll see reference articles.

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So you may start them on a reference article,

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but it's really up to you. So I recommend

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kind of scrolling down,

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you can click directly into the content bucket here

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to see all of the different resources.

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Just click one you think is interesting, ask

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your question

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and you'll pop it in here.

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You'll see right here. It's telling you to enter

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directions for students to find materials.

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So generally, what we like to do is

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we jump back to our main

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topic page here.

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It will tell them, click into the viewpoints

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content bucket,

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click into the article titled

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um Employers must develop Smart A I policies

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to avoid workplace discrimination. So

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you are guiding students directly to the article,

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you're making sure they're getting the content that you

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want them to have. But again,

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they're still clicking on their own. So they're still getting that

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kind of feeling of being able to do it themselves.

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If you have more advanced students,

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you may want to start using filtering options

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here. So you may say, you know, click

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into the viewpoints content bucket limit

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down to

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um we'll say a publication limit down to

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robotic technology publication and

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click into this article. So it's giving them like another

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step of having to discover this piece

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of content.

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But again, of course, that's going to be free of more

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advanced learners who understand how filters

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work and who can kind of do those extra

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clicks.

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Another great way to use this is to have

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students decide what piece of content

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they want to read. So if I go back here again

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to just the main topic page,

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let's scroll down here. Let's say I want them

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to look at an infographic.

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These are interactive statistics. They can

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kind of hover over to get information from.

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So let's say I want them to interpret one, but I don't

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want to tell them which one. I'll just

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give my directions. Click into the infographics

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content bucket,

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choose an infographic and describe

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it to me or give me your opinion on it, whatever

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you want it to be.

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And then again, since they have to include

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their source on the scavenger hunt,

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you're going to be able to easily click in to see

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what's infographic. They

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actually chose to make sure they, you know,

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they actually choose an infographic to take a look

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at. So there's another great way to do that.

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If you want students to have a little bit more autonomy,

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you can direct them to a specific

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content type, but then have them choose

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their own

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entry within that kind of spectrum.

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And again, our content buckets scroll

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back up here.

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also includes separate spots

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for images and videos which are

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really great if you want students to,

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you know, interpret an image on their own.

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Maybe it's a political cartoon, maybe

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it's a, a

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scientific diagram or something

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like that. They'll find those in the images

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section here as well.

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And if you were looking at maybe a social studies

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topic, maybe a history topic. And

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you wanted students to take a look at a primary

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source, primary sources have their

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own content buckets as well. We don't have any

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currently attached to artificial intelligence,

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which is make a little sense. You

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know, artificial intelligence is a newer topic.

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But if you were to look at something more historical

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or something that just has a longer history in general,

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primary sources may pop up here

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as a content bucket

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as well. So you can have your students click in and

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find a primary source to kind of click

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through with a scavenger hunt as well.

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And our template has room for

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five questions.

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Of course, you're going to dictate how

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many questions there need to be. if

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you want there to be, you know, 10 steps, if you want this

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to be kind of a longer scavenger hunt that's really

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comprehensive and covering a lot of information.

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You can certainly do that. but we default

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to the five. So it's generally

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going to be a little bit shorter. You'll see if I add multiple

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questions to each of these sections.

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you can bulk it up that way as well,

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but we start with five and kind of go from there.

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So if you are using

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the template, that's where we're going to start off.

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Now, are there any questions about scavenger

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hunt development about, topic

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pages, how they work things like

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that? Ok.

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I don't see any. So I, we have about 10 minutes.

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Oh, we have a question.do you use topic

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finder with this? Amy? You certainly

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can. topic finder is

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not going to necessarily

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pull students to a topic page

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immediately.

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so if you are using topic finder,

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I would just warn you that it

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may require a little more research skills for students

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to find the content they need

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as opposed to starting right on topic page landing point.

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But, um, yes, if you're having your students

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use topic finder more frequently than you

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are them clicking into topic pages and

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things like that.

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you can certainly do it that way. Yeah. You

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know, instruct your students to run a

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topic finder search on a specific topic,

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and maybe have them navigate through the different

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tiles to a specific spot.

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We have another question here, how you created

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this. So

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the question is, have we created any scavenger

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hunts where the students are?

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The students need to find a resource instead of

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directing them there.

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Um, on our support side

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are premade scavenger hunts. We don't have

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a lot that are kind of student led.

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Like you're, um, suggesting,

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a lot of ours just since they're

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pretty broad and we're kind of

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handing them out nationally are a lot more,

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kind of teacher directed as opposed to

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student directed. But,

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um, that's definitely something you can do if you want this

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to be kind of student led and maybe you

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want them to develop their own scavenger hunt or

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something like that.

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We don't have one premade, but that's definitely

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something you can do even if you want to start out with

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our template and just kind of edit it for your students.

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Ok. So I'm going to close out of my template

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here,

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bring this up full screen and

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bump this back up. There we go because I

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do want to show you where you can find

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our premade scavenger hunts. So if

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you don't really want to make your own just yet, you want to see

[00:21:48.289]
what we have available. They're all listening on our support

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site, which is just support.gale.com.

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Hm.

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And once you are clicked into the support

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site here, you have the option to

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enter your location ID right here on

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this, at the right side of the page,

[00:22:06.828]
it's not required. But if you know your location

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ID and you put it in, we're actually going to

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filter out the content you see to just include

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the products that you have available. So

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right now, if you only have two or three in context,

[00:22:17.979]
resources, you probably don't want to see scavenger

[00:22:20.299]
hunts for the rest of them. A way

[00:22:22.519]
to avoid that is to enter in your location ID

[00:22:24.739]
here, you can use the find your location if

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you don't know it.

[00:22:27.719]
but again, it's not required if you just want to see

[00:22:29.789]
every scavenger hunt we have available. You

[00:22:31.868]
can certainly do that. how you're gonna do that

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is go up to the training center and the toolbar

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of top here

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and you can find it two different ways. You can browse

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by the type or you can browse by

[00:22:42.309]
product. So if you know, you're going to be using,

[00:22:44.509]
let's say gal and context environmental studies,

[00:22:47.049]
and you just want to find information just

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for that, go on by product if you're

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not so sure, and you want to see everything we

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have go on by type. So

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I'm going to go on by type.

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And all of our scavenger hunts are listed

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under activities here. So it's the first

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one on top

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and I warn you, we have a lot of activities

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built out within our support site

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as you can see here and not all of them are scavenger

[00:23:12.279]
hunts. We have quite a few different activity types we've

[00:23:14.348]
built out. But if you're looking for a scavenger

[00:23:16.608]
hunt, what I suggest is under this

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search, just search scavenger

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or, you know, start typing scavenger and

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it's just going to show you just the scavenger hunt

[00:23:25.420]
here. What's really nice is

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when you click through this here, you'll see what the topic

[00:23:29.949]
is. So we say this one's about advertising

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and you're also going to see the resource that we use.

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So for this one, we're using Gale and context opposing

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viewpoints.

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Now if you're looking through this and you really want

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to use an advertising scavenger hunt, but you

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don't have access to scale and context opposing viewpoints.

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Click into this. Anyways, take a look

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at what we did. You may be able to use a

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different resource. You'll have to edit the questions,

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of course, to, um,

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to relate to content found within that different resource.

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But it still may be a good starting point for you even

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if you don't have access to the resources utilizing.

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So if you see the topic, I suggest

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clicking in and you can edit for

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whatever resource you do have access to.

[00:24:10.469]
But you see we have quite a few here scrolling

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down. This is also where you're going to find

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our scavenger hunt template. Again,

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links in the chat if you just want to have the link,

[00:24:19.719]
but you will find it listed here

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on the activities section

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as well.

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You see we try to make at least

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one for all of our resource, excuse

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me for all of our resources. So

[00:24:32.059]
gel and context middle school, we have

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some for gal in context, elementary high school,

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the histories, the sciences.

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We're trying to include scavenger

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hunts for all of our resources here.

[00:24:45.848]
And if you do find one, you like, you just click into

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it, you'll

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see it listed here. So it's premade

[00:24:52.390]
for you

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and you can download it or you can print it, have

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it ready to go

[00:24:58.578]
and each of our scavenger hunts do

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include answer sheets. So you won't need to build out

[00:25:02.660]
your own answer sheet. We already include those for

[00:25:04.709]
you. so just make sure when you're handing

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these out, you don't accidentally,

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hand out the answer sheets to your students.

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That's the one thing to watch out for. I can say, as

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a former teacher, I have been guilty of almost doing that

[00:25:17.160]
a few different times. So,

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each of these do come with answer sheets at the very end.

[00:25:21.009]
So make sure you keep those answer sheets to yourself

[00:25:23.140]
and just hand the activity out to your students.

[00:25:26.539]
But again, to find this, we just go

[00:25:28.618]
under training center.

[00:25:30.150]
I decided to browse by type and I clicked

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into activities to see the scavenger hunts

[00:25:35.130]
if I decided to go by product here,

[00:25:38.289]
let's find it in context

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I didn't sign in. So you see, I have a lot going on.

[00:25:46.338]
So let's say I decided to go into Gale In Context: Middle School.

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I chose school materials here. If

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you were to sign in with your location ID, you won't

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need to change this. It's going to recognize you

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and change it for you.

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Um, but I changed it here just because I'm not signed in

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and all of our activities are going to be found towards

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the bottom here in this fine lessons and

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activities section.

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Again, you'll find activities other than scavenger

[00:26:08.789]
hunts, you see we have for this an escape room, a tic

[00:26:10.979]
tac toe activity. but this is

[00:26:13.000]
where you'll find the scavenger hunts just for

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Gill and context middle school.

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Ok. We've got about three minutes. Let me jump back

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just to give you some wrap up contact information.

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If anyone thought of any questions while I was talking,

[00:26:29.709]
please go ahead and pop those into the Q and A now

[00:26:31.779]
and I'll be able to answer them for you

[00:26:34.039]
while you do that. Let me give you some contact

[00:26:36.219]
and wrap up info. If you think of any

[00:26:38.229]
questions once we get off the line today or just have

[00:26:40.299]
a question about just the webinar in general,

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you can feel free to send me an email again. My

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name is Amber Winters. My email is just

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[email protected].

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If you want to talk a little bit more about

[00:26:52.199]
how you can use this in your learning community, maybe you

[00:26:54.289]
have a specific topic in mind and you want to talk

[00:26:56.380]
to someone about uh the best resource

[00:26:58.680]
to use or just, you know, best practices.

[00:27:01.068]
Uh You can reach out to your customer success manager.

[00:27:03.420]
If you don't know who that is yet, send an email

[00:27:05.549]
to [email protected]

[00:27:07.640]
we'll forward you to the correct individual.

[00:27:10.769]
Uh If you want to talk to your sales consultant

[00:27:13.118]
about in context resource, you don't have access

[00:27:15.318]
to, you can feel free to either email

[00:27:17.588]
them directly or go to support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:27:19.779]


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and we'll forward you to the correct individual.

[00:27:25.229]
And then finally, I've included again here,

[00:27:27.239]
the support site for all of you. So if

[00:27:29.328]
you do need any on-demand support material,

[00:27:31.838]
I will mention all of this material is free

[00:27:33.868]
and ready to go for you. You don't need to worry about purchasing.

[00:27:36.299]
This isn't, you know, uh you're not paying

[00:27:38.519]
for this, it's all free and ready to go. Again,

[00:27:41.140]
our support site is support.gale.com.

[00:27:43.779]
You'll also find our recorded webinars there.

[00:27:46.140]
Marketing materials, information

[00:27:48.410]
about kind of the technical side of things.

[00:27:51.219]
A lot of good stuff on our support site.

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Ok? No, I haven't seen any questions come up.

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So I'm going to go ahead and end our session again,

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if you do have questions, reach out to any,

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any method you see on the screen

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here and we can all help you out. But thank you for

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joining in our session today and hopefully we will

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see you in future once everyone enjoy

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the rest of your day.
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