CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Theme I: Experiencing Learning
Unit 1: Awareness and Reflection
Scavenger Hunt
*Mandatory lesson
Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate personal qualities through a creative
product and an oral presentation.
Essential Question: Who am I within the context of a larger community?
Activities:
1. Give each Cadet a small bag (e.g. either a white or brown lunch bag).
Tell students that as a homework assignment, they are to find words and pictures from
magazines as well as small items that will decorate the outside of their bags and fit
inside their bags to represent themselves in the following categories:
• as a member of a personal family
• as a member of the student body
• as a member of an ethnic group (optional)
• as a member of a gender (optional)
• as a member of a larger community (e.g. church, sports, hobbies, volunteer activities)
• as a Teacher Cadet
• as a complete person
2. Each Cadet will prepare a five-minute oral presentation about himself using the bag as
a prop. Videotape the presentations. The videos are also good to use as a display for
Open House and for recruitment purposes for next year’s class. A good follow up to this
“getting to know you” activity is to give a little “Name That Cadet” quiz the next day. As
the Cadets give their presentations, students and the teacher can record unique points
about each Cadet to use as questions f