Items for a multimedia scavenger hunt

Prepared by Chris Clark, University of Notre Dame. Revised January 28 2014, NspireD2 blog: http://wp.me/prJu2-3ha

These are sample items, meant to suggest categories of objects or activities you might incorporate into your own scavenger hunt.

Sound

1. Ambient sound from an specific place (e.g., a restaurant)2. A sound effect, like fingernails on a chalkboard3. Play a tune on something other than a musical instrument4. Three people reciting a poem at a time, in different pitches5. A used car salesman advertising an academic talk6. Read a literary passage in gibberish (Pig Latin, Ubbi Dubbi)7. Someone saying something specific in a real foreign language8. Sing something: fight song, nursery rhyme9. Someone making a purchase (cash register, scanner beeping)10. Verbally explain something that’s easier to explain visually

Image

1. An item in the library2. An outdoor sculpture that meets certain criteria3. Something hard to find: a car license plate with a message or

from a faraway place4. Something at a specific latitude and longitude5. Something life-sized made of Lego bricks6. An original finger painting7. Someone wearing or holding something (funny hat, live

rabbit)8. A specific kind of person: dean, salesman named Bob, fencer9. A candid photo of someone reading in a public place10. Something with a specific color scheme

Video

1. A professor explaining quantum mechanical tunneling2. A skit acting out a famous phrase, like “release the Kraken”3. A random act of kindness4. An animal doing something unusual5. Phones (per-)forming something creative together6. Something with zombies 7. Something out of place: doing the "wave" in a cafeteria8. Something skillful: riding a skateboard9. Filmed at a special angle (e.g., from high up in a tower)10. An idea (the road less traveled, you are what you eat)

Other twists

In costume With musical accompaniment In a less-well-known language In code or backwards