Paris 2024 Summer Games No-Prep Codebreaker Scavenger Hunt End of Year Activity

The Paris 2024 Summer Games Scavenger Hunt with Decoder allows students to move around the classroom while reading passages and answering questions. The activity is structured as a codebreaker reading activity where students read passages about the Paris 2024 Olympics and answer questions found in the text. Each of the 8 station cards contains a short reading passage about an aspect of the Olympics and a short question. No more boring worksheets! The Paris 2024 Summer Games Scavenger Hunt provides an engaging way for students to enhance their reading abilities while learning about the history and current facts about the Olympics. Students must solve the code and uncover the scrambled mystery word. This innovative print and hang activity encourages students to actively move around the classroom, engaging with reading passages and responding to related questions. Designed as an interactive reading exercise, it features eight station cards, each offering a concise passage about a specific aspect of the Olympics followed by a question. This type of scavenger hunt replaces boring worksheets with a dynamic and educational adventure with a code and word to solve.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• Directions for Use

•8 Stations = 8 Fact Cards - Each card contains a reading passage and facts about the topic area.

• Decoder

• 1 Recording Sheet

•Teacher Answer Key

INSTRUCTIONS:

Set up the stations and let the students start wherever they want. Print and hang the passages.
Students will move around the classroom visiting the eight stations, reading short passages, finding text evidence and answering 8 questions.
For each question, they must record the number of the passage where they found the information and use the decoder included to identify the correct mystery letter corresponding to the right answer.
After students record their answers on the answer sheet provided, they will use the letters to unscramble a mystery word and reveal an 8-digit code (corresponding to the right passage numbers). Students need to get the 8-digit code and mystery word correct to complete this activity! If they only get one correct, please tell them to try again. Do not indicate which question is wrong.