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Last Updated: December 12, 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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Ok, welcome in again, everyone.

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Today. We're talking about how you can develop scavenger

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hunts with Gale In Context resources.

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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior

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training consultant here with Gale.

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So our agenda today is pretty short,

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nice and simple. First, we're just gonna

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talk briefly why scavenger hunts.

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So what they are, what

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the value is in using scavenger hunts

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in your class, then we'll talk about

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the development process and we're actually going to

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walk through. Um, I've chosen Gal in

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context, opposing viewpoints today, but,

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we're going to walk through one of the in context

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resources. So you can see how the training

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staff here, how we make scavenger hunts.

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And we'll show you a template for it as well. So you can

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really kind of understand how simple it is

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to make these

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after. If we do that, we're going to take a look at the

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premade scavenger hunts we already have on our support

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site. So if you don't have time to make yours

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right now, we might have one on a topic that you're

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interested in that you think your students would be interested in.

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And you'll be able to download it and just use it for

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free whenever you like.

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And then at the very end of the session, I'll have

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some wrap up information for you and

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again, if I'm not able to answer all of the questions

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that come in, the Q and A as they come in,

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I'll answer all of them at the very end of the session.

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So again, feel free to put them into the Q

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and A when you think of them,

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if it starts to get a little overwhelming

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and we need to keep moving, we'll just wait until the end of

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the session.

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But just know your question will be answered no

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matter when you put it in the Q and A.

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So let's go ahead and just Ive written. So I just

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want to start with the very basics. What are

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scavenger hunts? So if any of you have not used

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a scavenger hunt in your classroom yet, I just want you

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to be aware of kind of what they are. So

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these are guided activities that are really designed

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to help your students,

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explore a specific topic.

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So the point of a scavenger hunt is for them to

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really go step by step just like

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they would with, you know, a treasure map. They need

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to go to X place and they need to go to Y

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then they need to go to Z.

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we're helping them step by step. Find

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the content related to whatever topic you're

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learning about. So it's a much

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more friendly approach approach

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than a standard. You search for a

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blank and tell me about it. It's

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a really guided way to approach learning.

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And each question within each scavenger

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hunt, is kind of a new step,

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a new piece of content they need to review.

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So you'll see I have in my screenshot here.

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Um,

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in this first one, they're going to read an overview. The second

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one is a reference article. The third

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one is an audio file.

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So we're really walking them through again, step

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by step to different pieces of content.

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So the goal of a scavenger hunt isn't

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necessarily to have students on one

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reference article and you ask them five questions.

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The goal is more we're learning

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about. In this case, we're learning about bees.

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So we're learning about bees, let me guide

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you to however many different pieces

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of content. So you can really learn about

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bees on your own in some different ways.

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One of the main goals of these scavenger hunts is

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to help your students engage with different content

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types. What's nice about gale is we

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have, you know, not only kind of the reference articles

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you would expect to see, but we also

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have a lot of multimedia. We have primary

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sources. If you're learning about some sort of historical

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topic, we have infographics

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and statistics and experimental activities

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that we're talking about science classrooms. So

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these scavenger hunts, we really want students

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to take a look at all of those different things.

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We want them to really learn,

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however, works best for them. So we want to make

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sure we're hitting all different types of content

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for all different types of learners.

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Now, when we're specifically talking about scavenger

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hunts using gale and context, really,

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the key thing that makes scavenger hunt developments

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a lot easier and a lot easier for your students

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to use is going to be our topic

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page organization

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and this is found in all of our in context resources.

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So again today, when we do a walk through,

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I'm going to use gale and context opposing viewpoints,

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but it'll be the same within

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the core in context. So Gale In Context

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high school, middle school Elementary,

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if you're using maybe Gale In Context: U.S. History

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or science,

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each of them have these topic pages,

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completely organized for some of the top

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search and top used terms within each

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resource. So

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we really might recommend using

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these topic pages and guiding students through

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this one kind of landing point

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makes it a lot easier for them to find the different content

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types. You'll see, I just have a quick screenshot, we're

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gonna go in the resource live. So you can see these in action,

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but you'll see it's really simple and organized

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for them. They have an overview at the top, giving

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them kind of the, the base knowledge

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that they're going to need to move forward in their learning.

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And then underneath that, we organize all the, the different

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content types here.

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So you'll see again, this is in G and context, opposing

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viewpoints. So you'll see our viewpoints

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articles, but you'll also see

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audio files, news magazines,

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statistics. So it's a nice clean

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way for your students to find content

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without having to, run their

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own searches. You know, when they're working through a scavenger

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hunt, they could have five questions, they have to work through,

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they could have 10,

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and having them run 10 different searches

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is

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a lot of work.

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It's a lot of time. So these topic pages

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are going to help them still feel like they're doing

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their own research because they still have to click through

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to find the content that they need.

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But it's in a way that's a little bit more guided.

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So let's talk about how you can get started with scavenger

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hunts. So what I recommend is first

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downloading our pre created template. This

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template is made in powerpoint and it's completely

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editable by you. Um I have the link

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up here. I will put the link in our follow up

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email as well. So don't worry about

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trying to write down this link here. It'll

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be in the follow up email, but we have this on our support

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site and you'll be able to completely edit

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it to add all of your information and

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then you can just export it as a PDF once you're done.

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So I recommend that as step one, if you

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have your own scavenger hunt template ready to

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go use that, that's completely

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fine. But we do have one ready for

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you on the support site that you'll just be able to kind of

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plug and chug with your content

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from there. You're going to want to make sure you choose

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the correct in context resource.

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I do want to mention a lot of you most likely

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have more than one in context resource

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at your learning community at your school. So just

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make sure you know what you have available,

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the core In Context resources which are

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Gale In Context: elementary, middle and high

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school are going to be kind of

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the cross curricular catch all resources.

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So those are a little bit more shallow but

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have a more broad range of coverage.

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While if you have things like Gale

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In Context: World History or Opposing

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viewpoints or science, those are going

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to have a little bit more of a narrow look

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because they're looking at one specific subject,

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but they're going to be a lot deeper.

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So just make sure you know what you have available

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to you and make sure you choose the

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best resource for your learners. Of

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course, you know your learners better than anyone.

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Gale In Context: Middle School is a great place

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to send your middle school students, if they're

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a little more advanced, they might be ready for

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the subject focused resources like

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gale and context us history. So

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just be aware of what you have and make

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sure you kind of make the best choice for your learners.

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And finally, I always recommend again,

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check for a topic page in your

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resource. You don't have to use topic

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pages to create scavenger hunts. If

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you prefer to have your students search and just find

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little pieces of content through searching,

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that's completely fine. It's going to work the same way your

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students are still going to get great information.

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But again, these topic pages, these landing

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points, we've really made them

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to empower your students to still

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feel like they're researching to still have to click

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through content on their own. You're not pulling it for

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them and you know, sending them links.

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but it's just organized

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and it's right here for them. They can just easily

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point and click instead of having to develop their own

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search terms. So

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I always recommend checking for a topic page

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and checking for a topic page does kind of

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flow into choosing your in context

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resource if you start off with, let's say Gale in context

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high school, but you have a, a super

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specific, let's say scientific topic

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that you're wanting to build a scavenger hunt

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on. If they don't have a topic page

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in your in your core and context resource,

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take a look at Gale and context science, we

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might have it there instead.

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So again,

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be aware of what you have available to you. Check

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for a topic page is always my suggestion.

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And once you start doing this on your own, of

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course, you're going to

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build a better understanding of what works

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for you.

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Give me one second here. I got signed out of my resource.

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There we go.

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You'll find what works best for you. So these are

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just kind of starting suggestions. But

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what I'm gonna do now, we're actually going to go live

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in the resource before I do, I haven't

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seen any questions pop up in the Q and A,

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but I do wanna make sure I get them answered.

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So do we have any questions before we kind of dive

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in live and see how this works?

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Ok. I don't see any. So

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we'll go ahead and keep rolling then. So what I first want to

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show you is our scavenger hunt

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template. So again, this is actually found on our support

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site. I'll send you the link after our session is

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done. But we've left it as

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a powerpoint. So when you download it from our support

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site, it's going to download just like this

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anytime you see right here. So you'll see.

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Enter your topic here, enter the resource name.

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This is where you're going to have to put in your own information.

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So we do recommend when you make a scavenger

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hunt, leave it within one resource. So,

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you know, your hunt is just through gal and

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contexts, opposing viewpoints.

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I wouldn't suggest having them bounce back and forth

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between,

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you know, opposing viewpoints in high school and us

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history because that can get a little bit confusing for

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them as they're trying to click through. So we

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recommend just using one resource and sticking

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to that for the entirety of your scavenger

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hunt. Again, it's up to

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you. If you are have really high level students,

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maybe your 12th graders, you really want them digging

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into everything you have available. Feel

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free to edit this to use more than one resource. But

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we do default to just using one resource

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per scavenger hunt.

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So you'll see, we give you the option

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to enter that information here underneath, we

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have our basic directions.

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We organize the directions like

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you're going to be using a topic page. If

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you're not using a topic page, you'll need to edit this a

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little bit. Um, I suggest

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if your students aren't super comfortable with logging

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into the resource, add your login information

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up top here, you know, go to your

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school and click into X or go

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to the library website and click here.

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If you were, they don't know their password, you can certainly

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add the password here for your students as well.

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But just edit this as needed

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if your students are already you know, golden, they know

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exactly how to get to you in context, resources.

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You can skip those directions and use these basic

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ones here

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under the directions. That's where you're actually going

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to find where you need to complete

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the scavenger hunt steps here.

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So the first line is always going to be the directions

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to get to whatever piece of content you want

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them to see. So if you found a really nice video

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that you need your students to see on the topic page,

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you'll give them the directions. First click into

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the audio section, click into this

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video and then where

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this blue is, this is where you're going to ask your questions.

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You could have one question here, you could have two, you could have

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three whatever you wanna do, but that's where

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you're going to have them answer the questions for

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you. And on each

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of these, we do include this a

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spot for your students to put their source

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as well. So even if you're directing them

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to a piece of content, we want them to understand

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how citations work. So we include

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that here for them.

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And I will mention the very end of this template.

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We do have an answer

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key here as well. One

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hint for you or one tip,

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make sure you fill out the answer key for yourself

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as you're writing out the questions because

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I'm not gonna lie. It's a pain to write out all of the questions

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to find the content and then go back

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to that content to actually get the answers. I

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have to admit I've done that more than once. So

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as you're making this scavenger hunt,

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make sure you fill out the answer sheet for yourself as

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well. And

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then once you're done with this, we just recommend um

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exporting it as a PDF.

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So your students can fill it out online if you want them

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to or you can print it out for your students.

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You could also export it you know, like into

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a word document or something like that if you want them

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to type out, that's of course, completely

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up to you as well. But probably

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get it out of powerpoint. It's not great to keep it in

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powerpoint. So again, we prefer PDF S for

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this.

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So let's get down to how this actually works.

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Now again, I decided to just

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use close that Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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but this is going

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to work the exact same for any of your in context.

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Resources

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gel and context elementary looks slightly different

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just, you know, because we've made it for the little babies.

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So it's a little bit easier to click through

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and it clicks a little bit differently, but

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it's still going to have those nice

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topic pages for you.

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So let's first talk about finding topic pages

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and I'm just going to

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make my screen just a little bit smaller. I know

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it's small already since it's only half a screen.

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But I wanna make sure we see everything on this page.

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So,

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once you sign into Gale in context,

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whichever resource, you have a few

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different ways to find a topic page. So if you do decide

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you want to use a topic page and organize

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yourself that way

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you can either start on the home page here.

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You can look at issues of interest. Can

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I see what's going on this month? These change monthly,

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scrolling down, you can also browse different

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issues here. Each of these issues are topic

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pages. So you'll see we do right now

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have 486 issues

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or topic pages created within the resource.

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So this browse feature is nice if

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you don't know exactly what topic you want to use,

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maybe, you know that it's should be in the

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field of health and medicine or maybe it's,

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you know, you want something related to using

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energy or something like that.

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You can start to just browse here. Maybe

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science and tech. If I click into that

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and you'll see these topic pages, there

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are gonna be a lot of topic pages to browse through

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though. That's my one warning for you.

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So if you don't know exactly what you're looking

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for, just be aware, there's a lot to browse through. So

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it might take a little bit of time.

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But you can also find topic pages. Now, I just

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jump back to the home here, by running

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a search. So I'm actually going to search for affordable

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housing because I think that's something that we hear

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in the news a lot.

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Now, when I start typing in here, you'll see,

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I have these predictive text options

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and it's going to show me the top three here

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already have topic pages or you'll see

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they're called topic guides here.

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I already have them created for me.

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So as you type in your topic

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here, if you see one of these options with

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the little images next to it, you'll know that's got

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that nice organized page. We do have

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additional predictive text here. Any

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of these are just going to pull forward a search results

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page as opposed to a topic page,

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which is fine if you prefer to use that,

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use the resource that way. But again,

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I am really partial to these topic pages.

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So, let's click into affordable

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housing here.

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There we go.

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Now here we are on our nice clean

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organized topic page. So at the very

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top is going to be our overview. And

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for me, a best practice question

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number one on my scavenger hunt, you'll see as always

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select the blue read more button under the title,

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you'll see my blue read more button here.

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So I have them click into this. They're going to pull

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forward the full scavenger hunt. So I'm going

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to ask them to or sorry, the full scavenger hunt,

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the full overview. So I'm going to ask

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them to read this overview to get the background

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knowledge.

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And then I'm going to think of some questions off of this.

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Again, it could be one question. It could be a couple

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of questions.

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You'll see. This actually has critical thinking questions

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already made in here. So if you

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actually like these questions and want to use them in your scavenger

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hunt, you can just copy and paste these right directly into

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your hunt. But of course, you don't have to

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use these. If you have your own questions that you want to ask.

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And question number one, you'll ask

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your question, ask your question and then you'll have

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them include their source.

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And I will mention here that we do have a citation

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tool that's going to let them make

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the citations right here on the platform. They don't

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need to develop them on their own.

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If they use our cite button at the very top

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of the page here in our toolbar,

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it already pops it up for them. You'll see they can use

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Mlaap, a Chicago or Harvard

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versions. They can select copy

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and paste it right to the source section

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here

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and they're ready, they're ready to go. They don't need you to do

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anything else. It's a really nice feature to have

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to make sure your students are kind of continuing

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to move their learning forward.

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Now, I'm going to jump back to the main topic

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page here by using my little breadcrumb trail

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at the top.

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And sorry, if my screen just went black for a second,

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everyone, it's been cutting out. I don't know if

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it's just for me or if it's for you guys too, but

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it just went black. Hopefully it stopped.

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Um, so we're back here on the main

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topic page now, moving forward

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in the scavenger hunt, this is really when it

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gets super loose and it's whatever you want to do.

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What I like to do is scroll down,

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take a look at these different content types and

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I actually like to go and order. So I might start

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by clicking into my viewpoint section

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and I'm going to find a viewpoint that I really like.

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Let's say this one to solve homelessness, California

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must address overlapping crises.

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If I could say that word, that'd be great, right?

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So I'm going to have my students

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click and read this. So my directions

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here are going to be click into the viewpoints

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content bucket, which is right here

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and select the to solve homelessness

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document.

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If you have more advanced students,

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you may want to have them actually filter as well

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in your your direction. So maybe it's click

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into the viewpoint section, filter

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your results based on subjects,

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you know, only choose housing policy

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and then choose X article.

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So you can really kind of ramp up

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the difficulty or keep it at a lower level

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if you do want them to start filtering,

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have, have them filter, have that be another

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step in your directions to find a piece of content.

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Um,

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I like to tell them always to jump back to

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the topic page after they finish a step

[00:18:14.299]
in the scavenger hunt as well. So once

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they do this and they answer your questions for number two,

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go back to the main topic page

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by clicking affordable housing up here.

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And this may be something you wanna briefly

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go over with them before they start their scavenger

[00:18:28.769]
hunt. You know, this is the topic page. These

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are the content buckets. This is how you get back

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to the topic page just so they're aware,

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but you can also include them in the directions,

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but then I'll go down again. And now let's say, OK,

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I took a look at a viewpoint. Now I want the students

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to look at an infographic

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which is actually an inter interactive statistic

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will they'll be able to hover over the charts

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and the graphs, whatever they're looking at,

[00:18:52.660]
to understand what's

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going on here.

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And what's nice is I could also, let's say I click into

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infographics

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and instead of guiding them to one

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specific infographic, I could say,

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choose one of these infographics, tell

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me about it, tell me your opinion.

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What are your thoughts on the results?

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So I don't just have to forward them

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to specific bits of content. I can forward them

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just to a content type

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and then have them be able to make the choice

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in what piece of content looks the most interesting

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to them. So again, trying

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to get choice in the classroom, trying to

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have students feel empowered

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like they are actually finding their own content.

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Even though you're directing them, we want them to still

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feel like they're capable researchers

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who are able to do this on their own.

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So I might tell them to go

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in, find your own statistic. And

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again, since we have them put their source in here,

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it'll be easy if you want to take a look at what

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statistic they chose because the source

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is already listed for you.

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Here we go and we'll jump back to the topic page here.

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And again, we'll just scroll down,

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you can do this in order you can not do

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it in order if you don't want to do in order, you'll

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see we have primary sources. So if instead

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of doing something like um

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affordable housing, if you may be doing

[00:20:08.699]
a scavenger hunt on the civil war, you

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might want students to find a primary source.

[00:20:13.019]
That's interesting to them. They'll be able to do that

[00:20:16.068]
scrolling down. I do always like to have

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at least one multimedia question.

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So it might be a question about an

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interesting video or sorry, an

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interesting image or a video that

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I like on here that I want students to take a look at maybe

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a podcast under my audio file section.

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So I do like to mix it up. I don't want it to just be,

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you know, five questions about five different

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articles. I want them to watch a video,

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I want them to listen to a podcast.

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So I'll make one of those, you know, questions,

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three or four, something like that.

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And of course, the content types are going to vary based

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on what resource you're using as well as the

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topic. Sometimes you might see biographies.

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So you can have students learn about a person related to your

[00:20:55.769]
topic.

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Um You see primary sources, you'll see academic

[00:20:58.828]
journals and like gal in context opposing

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viewpoints. So again, if you have those

[00:21:02.989]
really high level learners, your 12th graders,

[00:21:05.338]
you may want them to read an academic journal

[00:21:07.818]
and again, you can direct them to read a specific

[00:21:09.939]
one or you can have them choose one

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they think is, you know, manageable for them to

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read. Again,

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you'll fill this out once it's done, we

[00:21:20.838]
recommend, exporting it as

[00:21:22.880]
a PDF but whatever, whatever

[00:21:25.098]
format works best for you and for your students,

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that's what we want you to do.

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Now, I do want to show you where you can find our premade

[00:21:35.809]
scavenger hunts before we end the session today and we've

[00:21:37.920]
only got about seven minutes. So

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before I do that, does anyone have any questions

[00:21:42.180]
about clicking through the resource,

[00:21:44.368]
finding a topic, page, writing

[00:21:46.630]
directions for students to find pieces of

[00:21:48.729]
content, anything like that at all.

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Ok. We've got a quiet group today.

[00:21:56.979]
That's not a problem. So

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our premade scavenger hunts as well as our scavenger

[00:22:01.680]
hunt template.

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Oh, we have a do have a question here. So for

[00:22:05.338]
high school students, about how much time would

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you allow for the lesson?

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So, Lisa, it's really going to depend

[00:22:11.219]
on how long you make the scavenger hunt. You'll

[00:22:13.289]
see. We default to having five questions.

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I would say five questions. If you have

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different sections for each question, I would give

[00:22:21.108]
them the class time to do

[00:22:23.140]
it. I would give them the whole class. So I'll make this

[00:22:25.390]
a day for whatever your students are doing.

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Um If it's, you know, quick five questions,

[00:22:30.400]
but they're,

[00:22:31.410]
you know, quick questions, just one question per

[00:22:33.430]
step. And maybe something just

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to do to finish off a lesson.

[00:22:38.029]
Realistically, you could maybe even do two questions

[00:22:40.459]
and have it be a bell ringer if you really wanted to make

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it short.

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So it just depends on the content. You're having students

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sift through, you know, if it's more advanced content

[00:22:48.140]
or if it's a lot of clicks and a lot of filtering,

[00:22:50.719]
it's gonna take longer. But if you try to

[00:22:52.750]
make it a little more basic, you know, click through

[00:22:54.858]
these five things, read a little bit and answer,

[00:22:57.180]
then you may not need a full class period. So

[00:22:59.559]
it's really going to just depend on

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what sort of content you're looking at.

[00:23:09.299]
And I did forget to throw this out there. I always forget

[00:23:11.430]
to mention this, but this is a great sub plan.

[00:23:13.930]
So once your students are comfortable within your

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in context, resources,

[00:23:17.930]
it's nice to have some of these on hand just with a

[00:23:19.939]
bunch of different topics, you know, what related

[00:23:22.009]
to whatever unit you're working on. So

[00:23:24.250]
if you have to be out, you don't have to make something

[00:23:26.269]
you can just, you know, here you go,

[00:23:28.549]
work through the scavenger hunt. We've done them before.

[00:23:30.930]
So, you know, the steps, find the content, answer the

[00:23:32.959]
question. So I like to throw that out there. It is

[00:23:35.088]
a nice sub plan.

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So all of our scavenge hunts that are premade

[00:23:40.459]
as well as our template is found on our support

[00:23:42.729]
site, which is just support

[00:23:45.019]
that gale.com and I will repeat that

[00:23:47.250]
at the end of this session.

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let's just make this full screen now.

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So once you're on support at.com,

[00:23:54.779]
you're going to go to our training center which

[00:23:56.959]
is listed up top here in this toolbar

[00:23:59.269]
and you can either browse by type

[00:24:01.739]
or by product. So if you're looking maybe

[00:24:03.900]
for just for scavenger hunts for gale in context

[00:24:06.088]
high school, I recommend browsing

[00:24:08.098]
by product and find a gal in context high school.

[00:24:10.789]
If you want to see all of the scavenger

[00:24:13.400]
hunts we have available. I would suggest

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going to browse by type. So we're going to do

[00:24:17.709]
that today.

[00:24:20.989]
Now, you see, we have quite a few different types here.

[00:24:24.559]
But what we want is activities. That's

[00:24:26.670]
where we house all of our scavenger hunts as well as

[00:24:28.680]
the other, um,

[00:24:31.390]
activity types that we have are other,

[00:24:33.539]
classroom resources. So let's click

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into activities

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now to narrow it down just to scavenger hunts. I'm

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actually going to go to this product search and

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I'm just gonna start typing in scavenger hunt.

[00:24:48.670]
And now you see, this is all of our premade

[00:24:50.759]
scavenger hunts

[00:24:53.088]
as well as the scavenger hunt template, which is

[00:24:55.150]
listed right here.

[00:24:57.009]
These are ready to go for you and they're free. I always

[00:24:59.098]
like to mention you can download these as many times

[00:25:01.289]
as you want whenever you want for as many of the

[00:25:03.358]
resources. They're always here available

[00:25:05.719]
for you,

[00:25:07.150]
excuse me.

[00:25:08.910]
But you'll notice here in the title we tried to include

[00:25:11.170]
the topic. So this one is about advertising

[00:25:14.019]
and then we include the resource. So this one's gall in context,

[00:25:16.608]
opposing viewpoints.

[00:25:18.019]
You'll see. We have one for science, high school environmental

[00:25:20.299]
studies. I believe we have at least

[00:25:22.358]
one scavenger hunt for every in context

[00:25:24.699]
resource. It, every in context resource,

[00:25:26.969]
but I have more than one like you'll see just

[00:25:29.000]
right here. High school, I have 12,

[00:25:32.180]
three Lissa, just right

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here where you can see. So a lot of our resources

[00:25:36.368]
have more than one scavenger hunt.

[00:25:38.430]
Um But they have at least one

[00:25:42.699]
so you can click into any of these. So

[00:25:44.838]
let's say alternative and renewable energy.

[00:25:47.578]
When they're pre created for you on the support

[00:25:49.699]
site, they are in PDF formats. Feel

[00:25:52.229]
free to download and change that

[00:25:54.009]
on your desktop, however you wanna do it,

[00:25:55.989]
they're free for you to edit however you

[00:25:58.039]
want to. But they are listed as PDF S when

[00:26:00.078]
they're on the support site,

[00:26:01.559]
but they are premade for you.

[00:26:03.250]
And we do include the answers here as well.

[00:26:05.549]
So be careful if you're sharing this file out with

[00:26:07.568]
your students, make sure you detach

[00:26:09.868]
the answer key before you send it to them because

[00:26:11.979]
this is gonna, you know,

[00:26:13.729]
this will definitely make it. So it doesn't take a full class

[00:26:15.868]
period if you hand them out the answers. So

[00:26:17.989]
just be warned, we do include the answers

[00:26:20.029]
attached to each of these scavenger hunts. So you wanna

[00:26:22.108]
make sure you get that second page or

[00:26:24.279]
maybe the third page depending how long this is,

[00:26:26.449]
off of the file before you send it out to them.

[00:26:33.660]
Yeah, but you can go through, click

[00:26:35.848]
on any of them, download them whatever you want to do.

[00:26:37.868]
They are again here on the support site and

[00:26:40.150]
I will put in a our follow up email, all

[00:26:42.338]
of the links. You're going to need to the template

[00:26:44.358]
to the support site. So you'll be able

[00:26:46.368]
to find this information once we're done today.

[00:26:48.410]
Don't worry if you forget, I know it's almost a holiday

[00:26:50.549]
break

[00:26:51.469]
and probably 95% of

[00:26:53.479]
this will be forgotten by the time we all get back, which is

[00:26:55.549]
totally fine and expected. So

[00:26:57.809]
just hold on to the email and you'll have

[00:26:59.818]
links to everything you need if you are planning

[00:27:02.009]
on developing your own scavenger hunts with your

[00:27:04.088]
gal and context resources.

[00:27:08.160]
Now let me jump back here to my slides

[00:27:12.368]
because I do have some wrap up information for you.

[00:27:14.519]
So if you have any questions for me, once

[00:27:16.759]
the session is done, if you forgot to ask something

[00:27:18.910]
or if something just pops up, feel free to

[00:27:20.979]
send me a direct email. My email is

[00:27:23.029]
just [email protected]

[00:27:25.739]
If you want to get a little bit more detailed

[00:27:28.358]
about a topic you're going to be working on

[00:27:30.439]
with your class or maybe if I have librarians on

[00:27:32.568]
the line and you have a teacher who you think

[00:27:34.588]
would really enjoy something like this,

[00:27:37.118]
you want to get a little bit more specific in how you

[00:27:39.358]
can use it for your learning community.

[00:27:41.449]
Reach out to your customer success manager,

[00:27:43.660]
you can do that directly or if you don't know who

[00:27:45.750]
it is yet, send an email to

[00:27:47.880]
[email protected]

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we'll forward you to the correct person,

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you can make an appointment with them and really

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go over specifics on how you can find

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content. They can even work with you to take

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a look at your resource collection to see what might be

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best for, you know, a teacher, a

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topic, a unit, whatever you're looking for.

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If you have any questions about any of the in context,

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resources, you can of course reach out to your sales

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consultant again, either directly

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or if you don't know who that is. You can go to support.gale.com/repfinder

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and you put in your information and we'll

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direct you to the right person there.

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Again, our support site is always ready

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and available for you and completely free. So

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if you need a premade scavenger hunt, you need

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the template or you need a, a different

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lesson plan or you want to

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look at webinars or you want to

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some sort of marketing material, all of

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that is found on our support site. So before you

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make anything for your school for your learning

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community,

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check out support.gale.com first,

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we might have it ready to go made for

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you, then you won't have to re invent the wheel.

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So again, always there and available

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for you. Now, I haven't seen any questions

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pop up at all and we are at the end of our time. So

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I'm going to go ahead and end our session. I do appreciate

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everyone for being on the line again, if you

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think of questions, once we're done today, please

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reach out in any of these channels

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and we'll be able to help you to make sure you get the information

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and the support that you need.

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So please enjoy the rest of your day, enjoy

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the holidays that are coming up and hopefully

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we'll see you all in future sessions. Bye

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bye now.
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