Scavenger Hunts That Bring Local History to Life

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Homeschooling with Technology

Meryl van der Merwe

300 episodes

6 days ago

The Homeschooling with Technology Podcast is a weekly show, hosted by Meryl van der Merwe, where she shares ideas on how to use technology to be more productive as a homeschool parent and on how to use technology to make lessons more engaging. In addition, she covers techie skills your children need to learn and how to easily incorporate them into your homeschooling. Meryl homeschooled her 4 children after working as a computer programmer for many years. She uses technology whenever she can when teaching both live co-op classes and online classes for homeschoolers. In this podcast, she shares all the best tech resources she finds with you.

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Scavenger Hunts That Bring Local History to Life

Homeschooling with Technology

18 minutes 58 seconds

3 months ago

Scavenger Hunts That Bring Local History to Life

Episode 331: Scavenger Hunts That Bring Local History to Life
In this episode, host Meryl van der Merwe revisits a topic she first explored back in episode 41 — scavenger hunts! But this time, she brings fresh insights from her recent European adventures, where she completed three different app-based scavenger hunts in Belgium and France.
What you’ll learn in this episode:

How digital scavenger hunts work and what makes them so engaging

Why these hunts are perfect for multi-generational learning

How they combine exercise, fun, and education in one immersive experience

Meryl’s experiences using:

ScavengerHunt.com

Explorial.com

Landing Zone (a location-based Normandy WWII hunt)

QuestoApp.com (recommended by FundaFunda’s Spanish teacher Suzette)

How scavenger hunts can reveal hidden gems even in cities you’ve lived in for years

Tips for using these hunts during vacations or staycations

Her plans to create digital scavenger hunts using Google Street View — and how you can be a tester or suggest a city!

Resources mentioned:

Blog post about ScavengerHunt.com

Explorial scavenger hunts

Questo app

FundaFunda Academy’s Visual Literacy class

Episode on using Google Maps for learning

Want to help test a digital scavenger hunt or suggest a city?
Email Meryl at meryl@fundafunda.com or message her on Instagram: @FundaFundaEducation

Take a look at show sponsor, FundaFunda Academy to see what they offer for online classes and web-based unit studies.

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