Design Your Own Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger hunt at home

 

Why a Scavenger Hunt?

When you’re looking for creative, inexpensive ways to engage your child, you can design your own scavenger hunt using your home.

Whether your home is a house or an apartment doesn’t matter, you and your child can have fun looking at old thing in new ways.

It’s especially useful during inclement weather and your stuck inside.

Examples

This activity is inspired by a 2008 challenge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the book Everyday Mysteries by Jerome Wexler. It involves not looking at an object as a whole but focusing on its details.

Here’s a sample from the Met challenge. For access to more examples and downloadable pdfs click here.

Hidden in plain sight at the Met.

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Social Media Often Gets It Wrong

Social Media Gets it Wrong - Folding Chair Mistake

 

When Does Social Media Get It Wrong? 

Remember the 2023 Montgomery riverboat brawl?

Not only did it make national and international headlines, it gave social media content creators new material.

As mentioned in the link article, the incident gave rise to many parody videos.

That’s how some people use social media. Generally speaking, it’s often harmless and sometimes entertaining. Read More

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Are Today’s Young People Workforce Ready?

Who's workforce ready?

 

Who’s Workforce Ready?

It’s essential to be properly trained to the perform the duties of a job, but are recent graduates truly workforce ready?

After many discussions with parents, I’ve come to believe that high schools and colleges are missing essential elements in preparing young people to enter the workforce. Leaving this (and possibly future)

Yes, students have a sound understanding of many subjects and should be well versed in the career path they’ve chosen, but this not enough. Read More

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