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Scavenger Hunt App for O&M

Interactive scavenger hunt app for your smart phone or tablet!

I recently organized a group of friends to do a scavenger hunt in Washington, D.C. The feedback that I received on the activity gave me some ideas about lessons for my O&M students.  

The app that I used was Big City Hunt.  I purchased the scavenger hunt ticket through Groupon at a discount, but the actual BIG City Hunt  website has tickets available for purchase. 

Here is the objective of the hunt directly from the website:

What is the objective of the hunt? 

“To learn and have fun! When you start your hunt, you will receive a single clue on your smartphone. You need to solve this clue to find the location that will help you solve your next clue. Throughout your scavenger hunt, you will be prompted to complete challenges and explore hidden details of notable city landmarks. You’ll earn points as you go, which could earn you a spot on a city’s leader board!”

What I liked about the concept of this scavenger hunt is that the entire activity is orchestrated through the Big city hunt app. Once teams or individuals are registered, the app gives you clues along the way.  The locations are typically in places good for sightseeing, such as downtown areas.  The app gives good descriptive directions for getting to locations including street names and location names.  This is a fun way to introduce skills to our students including street crossing, landmark, building location, and directionality skills.  The use of the Big City Hunt app layered with the use of a compass (a digital app) can be of great benefit to our visually impaired students and clients.  In addition to the wonderful set of O&M skills that they will gain, our students and clients will have fun learning facts about their local community as well as learning about fun locations to visit in the future.  

This is how the Big City Hunt works.

Here are some goals and objectives for working on navigational skills.

If you have tried using a scavenger hunt app, or have created a scavenger hunt on your own, please comment below and let us know how it went!

 

By Ericka

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