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I've never ben crazy about scavenger hunts, students basically just run 
around and check things off, so there is very little real learning or 
engagement (at least with the ones I've seen).

The only one I have seen that really engages kids is one that was 
developed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.  They have an 
enormous collection of China trade goods, and the experience consists of 
students working with a line drawing of part of the object, and they 
have to draw in the rest.  It causes them to really look at the 
original, and really examine the piece.

Beryl

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> I am in the process of redoing our scavenger hunts that we give to children
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Director
Tsongas Industrial History Center
Boott Cotton Mills
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