"You'll shoot your eye out..."

A WebQuest for 4th-6th Grade Hunter Safety Education

Introduction:

Do you remember the movie "A Christmas Story" when Ralphie Parker wanted the Red Rider Carbine Action Two Hundred Shot Lightning Loader Range Model Air Rifle as his Christmas present? Check out A Christmas Story Movie to refresh your memory. His worry-wart mom and crabby dad think that its a dangerous gift. His parents, teachers, and even Santa himself, tell him "You'll shoot your eye out." This is one example of why kids need hunter safety education today.

The Tasks:

To gain a basic understanding about hunter safety education, you will go through a process of several steps:

complete the Pennsylvania Hunter-Trapper Education Quiz,
complete the 50 question Hunter Education Quiz from the Idaho Fish and Game Department,
score an acceptable score on the Buckmaster's Online Hunting Game,
sharpen your interactive shooting skills at HuntingNet.com on duck, turkey, and deer,
know and write the Ten Commandments of Firearm Safety, and
complete the Wildlife ID Quiz with a reasonable score.

The Process:

If you want to be a smart and safe hunter, you can follow the steps that I have set up for you. I have found a few sites that will assist you in becoming a better, safer, and smarter hunter.

1. Think you know everything about hunter safety education. Take the Pennsylvania Hunter-Trapper Education Quiz! This is a test for the hunters in Pennsylvania, but it is an excellent test for hunters all over the nation. This interactive site grades your quiz so you will find out just how much you know about hunter safety.
2. A Hunter's Quiz: How Good are You? This site provides 50 questions from the Idaho Fish and Game Department. Hunter Education classes teach proper firearm handling, wildlife conservation, hunter ethics, and outdoor survival. This site provides a quiz to test your various aspects of hunter education.
3. Want to test your rifle and bow hunting skills? Try Buckmaster's Online Hunting Game and see if you are the best shot around. You can choose from three different scenes: winter, summer, and indoor ranges are available. Each field gives you eight targets, and you get only one shot at each of them, so your skills better be at the top of their game.
4. Are you a hunter that enjoys hunting all game animals? Travel to Hunting.Net Games for challenges of duck, turkey, and deer hunting. You can also test your knowledge on the crossword puzzles and hangman games that challenges your mind with questions about hunting.
5. Let's see how many wildlife you can identify by the tracks they leave. To be a smart hunter you need to know the tracks your game animal leave. You can take the Wildlife ID Quiz and see how many of the animals you can identify. A 15 animal word bank is given along with 15 animal tracks. Match the tracks with the animals and let's see how well you know your game animal tracks.
6. Hunter safety education has a set of rules called the Ten Commandments of Firearm Safety. These are the law when it comes to firearm safety. You must be able to state and list these ten commandments. Write these down, study them, and be able to list them in the evaluation rubric. Practice your skills with the test that I designed for you: Ten Commandment Quiz.

The Evaluation:

You will be evaluated on five different objectives. The information you gather from the Internet challenges will help you meet the objectives below. Your score will be evaluated on how well you perform these tasks.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4
Can you correctly answer all the questions from the Pennsylvania Hunter-Trapper Education Quiz?	Correctly answer 0-10 questions.	Correctly answer 10-15 questions.	Correctly answer 15-17 questions.	Correctly answer 17-20 questions.
Can you ace the Idaho Fish and Game Department Hunter Quiz?	Correctly answer 0-20 questions.	Correctly answer 20 of 50 questions.	Correctly answer 30 of 50 questions.	Correctly answer 40 of 50 questions.
Can you handle the hunting challenges from the Buckmaster's Online Hunting Game?	-Score 0-60 1st scene. -Score 0-100 2nd scene. -Score 0-60 3rd scene.	-Score better than 60 1st scene. -Score better than 100 2nd scene -Score better than 60 3rd scene	-Score better than 80 1st scene. -Score better than 200 2nd scene. -Score better than 80 3rd scene.	-Score better than 100 1st scene. -Score better than 300 2nd scene. -Score better than 100 3rd scene.
Can you recognize the animal tracks from the Wildlife ID Quiz?	Successfully ID 0-3 of 15 animal tracks.	Successfully ID at least 4 of 15 animal tracks.	Successfully ID at least 7 0f 15 animal tracks.	Successfully ID at least 10-15 tracks.
Can you list the Ten Commandments of Firearm Safety?	List 5 or less of the Ten Commandments accurately.	List at least 6 of 10 of the Ten Commandments accurately.	List at least 8 of 10 of the Ten Commandments accurately.	List all 10 of the Ten Commandments accurately.

Conclusion:

I hope you have survived the WebQuest without shooting your eye out! Hopefully you have learned some valuable points about hunter safety. Please continue to practice safe hunting, and remember to always keep the safety on.

Credits & References:

I would like to recognize Google.com for offering such a terrific search engine. My images were found using this wonderful web site. I would like to thank the Pennsylvania Hunter Education Department. I also want to thank the Idaho Fish and Game Department. I wish to thank the great people at Buckmaster's for the online hunting game. I want to personally thank the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) for the Hunter Safety Education booklet.

Teacher Advice:

This lesson is designed to teach 4th to 6th grade hunter safety education. This lesson can easily be used in higher level grades.

The learner will need to have an interest or desire to learn about how to be safe while hunting. Also a very general knowledge of what a firearm is and how it works will be helpful before beginning the course.

This class will be taught for one hour a day, during one class period for five days.

Children may have trouble learning the Ten Commandments of Firearm Safety, so any method you find the best for teaching them is acceptable.

The novice teacher should have just a general understanding of hunter safety.

The teacher may get with the local game warden and set up a field trip to a rifle range for the children so they can get valuable experience shooting a rifle and/or shotgun.

Created by Travis Barnes for EDU 506 @ FHU School of Education by Dr. Bruce Lewis on November 27, 2001.