Creating a Treasure hunt Instructions:

• The teacher creates short links to relevant sites. These are printed and hidden in a set location
• A riddle is created for the students to solve and identify the clues location:

Riddle Example:

“This style of rest is Crawford students favourite past time. Sometime this task is carried out with great decorum other times not. Hidden in this courtyard are the objects that support their rest and hold the keys to this activity.”

Notes on constructing the riddle: The answer was benches...the students learnt a new word - decorum and the area was delineated - the courtyard. The game was personalised- Crawford Students… and the clues location revealed.

Also the treasure hunt was outside which meant students were active- sitting for the whole school day is bad for students and movement should be encouraged.

• The students then found the clues (one each) and went to the sites
• They then had to find their team- e.g Picasso and Braque and Cubism (this required discussion and class engagement and problem solving- students had to remember which artist was which movement)
• The students then prepared a teach back for the next lesson. The feedback could be on non-traditional format- e.g a narrated video of a street view tour of the Cubist Art in the MoMA