Learning activity 1 – Year 7 scavenger hunt
Provide students with a school map and the list of items in the scavenger hunt.
Have students during the session go off in pairs – however, have them sent to different destinations to begin with. As always, let them know about school etiquette as they move around the school. You may need to provide a badge or pass so that other staff know that students are doing a school-based activity for transition.
If students have access to devices, they might also take photos of the places they discover and clues they solve.
Provide them with a time limit, for example, 20 minutes.
When students return, discuss the following:
- What was easy to locate?
- What was difficult to locate?
- Did they have trouble with the clues provided?
- What areas might be ‘out of bounds’ on occasion?
- Did anyone find the emergency assembly areas? What are they used for?
- Did anyone get lost? What did you do to ‘find yourself’ again?
Scavenger hunt list
Find the following locations – read the clues carefully!
Write down or photograph the number/letter of the room and the name of the building:
- LeBron James! What a champion
- Where I work out equations
- Albert Einstein E=mc2
- Australian Diamonds
- My stomach is rumbling
- Ash Barty
- Red Cross
- Heavy Metal
- Need to get ready for that Grand Final!
- The principal needs to speak to the whole school
- MasterChef
- I can’t hold on any longer!
- The Happiest Man on Earth can be found here
- If I am late… I need to report here ☹
