Tips and "How To's" for Creating Scavenger Hunts and Web Quests

Using Web Quest Templates for Creating your Web Quest
These directions are for  working with Windows XP, and Microsoft Front Page 2002.

Note: Download and save WebQuest Templates and save them in your directory/folder on the server if you have not already done so.

Part One

1. Open the "My Documents" folder. 
2. Click the drop down arrow in the address bar, and browse to find your folder on the server. (If you are working on your home computer, you can browse to the  "My Webs" folder and use that instead -- but only use the "My Webs" folder if you are working on your home computer. It's a good idea to get in the habit of saving files on the server while at school.)
3. Open your folder/directory on the server.
4. Choose File>New>Folder
5. Name the folder (or right click on folder and select rename)  the title you want for your Web Quest. 
6. Open the Web Quest Templates folder. 
7. Choose "webquestemplate" folder if you want a simple whole page format, or "webquestemplate2" folder  if you prefer the table format (with the navigation side bar on the left).
8. Double click to open the folder.
9. Hold down the CTRL key and click to select the following files: Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, Resources, Evaluation, Conclusion, Teacher  (the files you want should be highlighted)
10. Click Edit>Copy
11. Browse to find the folder you previously created named with the title of your Web Quest.
12. Open the folder and click Edit>Paste. This puts the template files (Introduction/Index, Task, Process, Evaluation, Resources, Evaluation, Conclusion, Teacher) in your specific Web Quest folder.
13. Close all folders.

Note: If you are creating a Scavenger Hunt instead of a WebQuest, follow steps 1-6. Then choose the "webqesttemplate" folder for the simple whole page format. Click to select the index file. Then follow steps 10-12.

The advantage to working with these templates is that the navigation structure is already created -- with the links already connecting to each of the "building block" areas.

Part Two

1. Open Front Page (Start>Programs>Front Page)
2. On the Tool Bar Menu, click the down arrow next to the "Open Folder" tool button, and click "Open Web".
3. Click the down arrow for the "Look In" drop down menu. Browse to find your folder on the server, double click and browse to find the folder you created for your Web Quest.
4. Select your Web Quest folder and open. 
5. You should see the Index, task, process, resources, evaluation, conclusion and teacher files in the folder view.
6. Double click the index file. It opens a page view. Type in your content for the "Introduction". When finished, click the save tool button (disk icon) and close. Be careful to close the page, NOT the whole program!
7. Repeat this process for each of the Web Quest "building block" sections

The basic editing and formatting conventions in Front Page are similar to Microsoft Word. If you have already created content in MS Word, you can copy in and paste it into the Front Page editor.

If you do not have Front Page, create a Word document for each separate Web Quest building block. When you are finished choose "Save As Web Page" for each