World Wide Treasure Hunt
http://www.worldwidetreasurehunt.com/

	CONTENT: A series of treasure hunting games designed to teach users about other cultures, history and geography.
	AESTHETICS: The site contains a great deal of large blocks of text because of the nature of the clues. The background and graphics that are used are in keeping with the time period of the game.
	ORGANIZATION: Locating the different sections in the site is very easy and each page has a large graphic button to return to the home page.
	REVIEW: What could be better than a free, online adventure that educates along the way? Well, here's a place to find them. The website is called World Wide Treasure HuntŠ and the current game is The Pirate Age Hunt but future games will include a wild west theme, the middle ages in Europe and the mysteries of ancient Egypt. The object of each of these games is to find the location of a treasure(s) as quickly as possible while competing against other treasure hunters from around the world. (Teachers can sign their whole classroom up as long as there is only one E-mail account). These games are created by combining historic facts with fictional stories which lets users learn about the customs and traditions of historical civilizations. Once registered, players receive a portion of the story (clues) via email (anyone entering the game at a later date can get the information from the website). Each treasure hunter is allowed up to 10 guesses of the location and winners are judged on key words such as a town name nearest the treasure, a physical object the treasure is near or an exact item that the treasure is hidden in/under. A number of winners for each game will receive an announced prize and the top 25% of the treasure hunters for any of the first 4 hunts (based on the date/time of the winning answer) will be eligible to take part in the World Wide Treasure Hunt Championship hunt. This would make a great team project for classrooms to work together competing against other schools or for teachers to use as a lesson plan for individual students to compete. Another great combination of education and the internet.