Italy High School

Pre-AP Biology Scavenger Hunt

Web Quest

Introduction

Scavenger hunts are exciting…you never know what treasures you might find! A Biology Scavenger Hunt will be your science project this six weeks. See how many items you can find and how many points you can accumulate!

Task

You will be utilizing a variety of information sources in order to identify items on the Biology Scavenger Hunt list. As soon as you find each item, bring it to class for approval.

Process

Review the following list of items and the point value for each item.

Scavenger Hunt Items
	Item	Points
1	Bird feather 10 pts
2	A piece of a snake's skin lost during a molt 10 pts
3	A fossil 10 pts
4	A bald cypress leaflet 10 pts
5	An insect exoskeleton 10 pts
6	A four-leafed clover (live or preserved) 15 pts
7	A caterpillar 10 pts
8	A piece of quartz 5 pts
9	An earthworm 10 pts
10	A pine cone 10 pts
11	The flower from a pansy plant 5 pts
12	A rock with moss or lichens growing on it 10 pts
13	A container of water with algae in it 10 pts
14	A mushroom or toadstool 10 pts
15	A piece of bracket fungus 15 pts
16	A woody stem where you can see the annual rings 10 pts
17	A Venus Fly Trap leaf (the part that catches the insects) 15 pts
18	A fern leaf with spores on the underside 20 pts
19	A sprouting seed 5 pts
20	An ear of corn with silk 5 pts
21	A piece of natural sponge 15 pts
22	A planarian swimming in creek water 20 pts
23	A slug or snail (alive) 10 pts
24	A fish scale 5 pts
25	A sand dollar 10 pts
26	A detailed drawing of a duckbilled platypus 10 pts
27	A hunting or fishing license (does not have to be your own) 10 pts
28	A copy of the book in which hedgehogs were used 5 pts
29	A canine tooth 10 pts
30	Photograph of a hawk or eagle 5 pts
31	An isopod (rolly-polly) (alive) 10 pts
32	A ladybug (alive) 10 pts
33	A wasp or bee nest 15 pts
34	A grasshopper 10 pts
35	A pecan 5 pts
36	A photograph of a sunset 10 pts
37	A volcanic rock 5 pts
38	A piece of petrified wood 10 pts
39	A mimosa leaf 10 pts
40	A moldy object 5 pts
41	A rusty object 5 pts
42	A leaf of a monocot 10 pts
43	A plant with tap root 10 pts
44	A photograph of twins 10 pts
45	A beetle 5 pts
46	Seeds from Johnson grass 5 pts
47	Spider web 10 pts
48	A little toad or frog 10 pts (Must be alive
49	Petrified wood 5 pts
50	Photograph of a hawk or eagle 5 pts
51	Picture of a DNA molecule from a magazine or internet 10 pts
52	Peach seed 10 pts
53	Roach (can be dead) 10 pts
54	Heart shaped rock 10 pts
55	Sunflower 5 pts
56	Acorn 5pts
57	Shark tooth 10 pts
58	Rattlesnake rattle 15 pts
59	Crayfish 10 pts

Mrs. Bridge will keep a running total of your points on a log in the classroom. You should also keep track of your own points. She will keep the items turned in until the project is over. Live items will be set free as soon as the points are recorded. If you do not want the items, they will become a part of the Science Department collections. All other items will be returned to students when the project is completed.

Sources to use to identify items include:

--Your biology textbook

--Library resources

--Any encyclopedia or dictionary found on the IHS Library web page:

--Or these web sites:

BioChem Hub

The Biology Project

Evaluation

This project counts as a major test grade. The following lists the number of points needed for each grade. There are 440 points available on the scavenger hunt. You only need 250 for a grade of 100. You are not required to get all the items, just enough to total 250 points, or the grade on the grading scale.

Grading Scale for Biology Scavenger Hunt

250-249 pts 100

248-247 pts 99

246-245 pts 98

244-243 pts 97

242-241 pts 96

240-239 pts 95

238-237 pts 94

236-235 pts 93

234-233 pts 92

232-231 pts 91

230-229 pts 90

228-227 pts 89

226-225 pts 88

224-223 pts 87

222-221 pts 86

220-219 pts 85

218-217 pts 84

216-215 pts 83

214-213 pts 82

212-211 pts 81

210-209 pts 80

208-207 pts 79

206-205 pts 78

204-203 pts 77

202-201 pts 76

200-199 pts 75

198-197 pts 74

196-195 pts 73

194-193 pts 72

192-191 pts 71

190-189 pts 70

170-169 pts 60

150-149 pts 50

130-129 pts 40

110-109 pts 30

90 and below 0

Conclusion

After the completion of this project, you should have a basic understanding of biology terms and be able to find similar information in your texts and other science related sources.

Credits

Detective clip art courtesy of Clip Art XP.

revised 18 October 2005