Year 7 Digital Treasure Hunt

When starting Secondary School, Year 7 students suddenly find they have to navigate the school’s vast network. Where are their files? What is a network location? How do they print? How do they open a document?

This resource is designed to teach students to navigate the network and print using a fun Digital Treasure Hunt. The provided web page directs them to a file which contains a challenge – solve the challenge, enter the code into the web page, and move on to the next challenge. When all five challenges are completed, they can print a certificate.

This resource includes:

• Digital Treasure Hunt Map (HTML, will run locally on your network)
• Treasure Hunt Lesson PowerPoint
• Activity 1: Web research task
• Activity 2: ASCII table lookup
• Activity 3: Logic puzzles
• Activity 4: Binary image encoding
• Activity 5: Opening a Python file
• Printable certificate
• Answer sheet
• Set up instructions

You will need to edit a JavaScript file to personalise the locations of the activity files, but this is a straightforward task and full instructions are provided.