Harry Potter

Scavenger HuntEME 5052

Linda Pingrey Click on the Wizard to see directions.

This is a Scavenger Hunt to find out all sorts of things about Harry Potter.

1. Read each Task (question or activity) carefully.

2. Use the Website on the slide to help you find what you are looking for. (Click on the underlined Web address)

3. Click the back button on the Web page to return to the Harry Potter Scavenger Hunt.

4. Check the rubric for guidance.

5. Click on Harry to go back to the previous slide or on the Owl to go on to the next slide.

6. You can complete the questions/activities in any order you wish.Remember you must press the escape button on the PPT presentation to go to slide view to add your answers (note: this will have been taught previously by the teacher)

7. When you have completed all parts of the scavenger hunt SAVE (to the desktop) your file as your name plus Harry Potter SH ex. Linda Pingrey Harry Potter SH

Task #1http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

Name all five of the Harry Potter books. If you could write a book about any subject, what would you write about?

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Subject:

Task #2http://www.harrypotterfans.net/

Go to this site and find a photo of your favorite character and copy and paste here. Tell why he/she is your favorite.

Task #3http://www.jkrowling.com

Harry Potter books are very popular in this country, name another country that the books are published in and name a country where they are not published. Infer (make a good guess) why you think the books are not popular in that country.

Published in:

Not published in:

Why???

Task #4http://www.ajkids.com/

Go to Ask Jeeves For Kids and find and write down a definition of – wand.

Wand -

Task #5What is the name of the author of all of the Harry Potter books? When you find out the author’s name do a search at the same site as Task #4 and write at least one fact about him/her.

Name:

Fact(s):

Task #6http://library.thinkquest.org/J001330/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1122

Harry had to take many classes at Hogwart’s. Name all eight classes and explain which one would be your favorite class and why.

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Favorite class and why:

Task #7http://library.thinkquest.org/J001330/page19.html

Go to this Web site and take a Harry Potter Quiz and evaluate how you did on it?

Task #8http://www.exposingsatanism.org/harrypotter.htm

We’ve discussed “bias.” Read this website article and decide if you think it is an example of bias and if so why do you think so? If not, tell why not.

Bias? Yes or No

Why or Why not?

Task #9http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/specials/2001/harry_potter/default.

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Where were the Harry Potter movies filmed?

Task #10http://cgi.money.cnn.com/apps/hpcurrconv

This is a Harry Potter currency converter, you put in the dollar amount and the H.P.converter tells you how many galleons, sickles and knuts that is equal to. Put in any dollar amount and tell how much that was equal to in Wizard $.

Dollar amount:

Wizard $:

Interesting Sites you might want to visit sometime on your own.

• http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/harrypotter-cw.htm

• http://selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=hpcharacter

• http://www.mathstories.com/bookstories/Book_16_Harry_Potter.htm

• http://www.factmonster.com/spot/haikuharry.html