Are you familiar with Geocaching, where you use GPS to find a hidden treasure by navigating to a location and using some clues if necessary? Do you remember the scavenger hunts you went on as a kids where you collected a series of objects from around the neighborhood?Klikaklu is a free app available for iPhone, iPad, and even Android. This free app allows you to navigate through a modern treasure hunt. At each stop there is a photo, find the photo, match it with your iDevice, and proceed onto the next stage. If you complete the hunt successfully, a reward may be waiting on the end.
Where do you find these treasure hunts, or better yet, can you make them? Klikaklu just revised their app so during the first seven days after installation you can create treasure hunts. After seven days, you'll need to purchase the upgrade for $4.99 to be able to create new or modify existing treasure hunts.
When creating a Klikaklu hunt you will have two options, either linearly where students progress from clue to clue in order, or as a scavenger hunt where they get all the clues up front and can find them in any order.
This would be a great activity to have incoming students at your school, for instance Freshman orientation day, find different locations throughout the school property.
You could use this activity for regular classes where each stop is a question, math, science, or language arts, and they must generate answers along the way. Klikaklu has this feature built in where you can have students answer multiple choice, true false, short text, or number questions at each clue and upon completion of the hunt.
For creative writers you could put stops where words are visible, students must bring back the words they found, and when finished write a story using all the words they chose to bring back.
Klikaklu would be very entertaining for those special days throughout your school calendar. Who knows, maybe you'll find that pot of gold at the end of your next treasure hunt.
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