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In Search of Saints

Tammy Crasto
tmcrasto@hotmail.com
Technology Teacher
St. Pius X School, Loudonville, New York

Introduction

This treasure hunt is about Saints. The students will answer six questions on the Saint of their choice. By clicking on the URL (web site link) below the Saint’s name that student wants to learn about, they will go to a website that will help them answer the question. This project can be used as an integrated Lesson Plan with the student’s Religion class.

Learners

The students that I see using this treasure hunt would be students in a Christian school or students in a Religious Education or Sunday School program. The students would be in grades 3 through 8.

Resources

Student would need to have access to computer and an Internet connection. Access to a printer would also be helpful but not required.

Standards

ISTE Standards

Standard 1. Basic operations and concepts

Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.Students are proficient in the use of technology.

Standard 3. Technology productivity tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

Standard 4. Technology communications tools
Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.

Standard 5. Technology research tools
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.

Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

NYS Standards ~ ELA Standard 1

Language for Information and Understanding

Standard 1 Students will read, write and speak for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically reduced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Process

The students will use the treasure hunt as information gathering process. The answers to the questions posed in the treasure hunt would hopefully lead to the completion of a project involving the Saint that they researched. You can print out two lesson plans that would you use the information that students find during the hunt. These plans also include a blank answer sheet for the treasure hunt.

In Search of Saints’ Lesson Plan ~ SaintLesson.doc

Evaluation

To evaluate the student using the treasure hunt, I would look to what their answers were to the hunt questions. If you use the hunt as a research tool to my lesson plans, you will find a breakdown of what I would expect from a completed report or brochure.