Overview Key Questions: What is Courage? How can the Internet help you discover and learn from other children around the world? How can the Internet be used as a tool to spread messages of courage and hope? This Internet Scavenger Hunt is a fun way to build research and information seeking skills. As students work in cooperative groups and research courage on the Internet, they begin to plan their own community service activities.	For more about Special #2 from Connecting Courage ~ Community ~ Computer, e-mail Lisa Vasallo, author and AT&T Teacher Disseminator.
Learning Standards Understand the importance of technological advances for the spread of literacy and for citizen access to information. Identify contributions of citizens and civic groups to public policy, legal reform, justice, and public safety.
Classroom Activities Surfing and researching several topics on the Internet, students discuss difficulties in locating reliably informative sites and prepare for a directed search using pre-selected web sites. Cooperative student groups collaborate on the Internet Scavenger Hunt. As they share computers, those waiting for access select a book from the list below and complete independent reading	activities about courage. Students and teacher read Scavenger Hunt hard copy and understand they will research only the listed URL's that link to appropriate web sites. Upon completing the hunt, the class responds to Key Questions: What did you learn from this project? How can you use this information to help other students?
Community Activities The final question on the Scavenger Hunt encourages students to read about various community service learning projects. When they finish the hunt, they plan their own community service learning plan of action.	Careers Students discuss School-to-Career competencies: Collect, analyze, organize information; Use technology; Initiate and complete activities; Interact with others.
Materials The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum listed on the Scavenger Hunt , Selected books: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson; So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins; Number The Stars by Lois Lowry; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor; Taking Sides by Gary Soto	Technology Students participate in an Internet Scavenger Hunt to research courage related sites.
Assessment Students and teacher compare final results of Scavenger Hunt answers.	Web Sites Scavenger Hunt lists Courage web sites. Learn how to set up a scavenger hunt at: http://www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/ ssn/inclass/scavenge.htm