You can enter "Christmas" as a search term, or for a 'Haunted Halloween' hunt, enter terms such as 'tombstone,' 'graveyard,' 'cemetary,' 'coffin,' etc. Choose 12-15 assorted documents which would be on an appropriate level for 5th or 6th graders. Print the documents and prepare bibiographical information for each, which you will put on the back of the document. Mount the documents on construction paper, put the bibliographic information on the reverse side, laminate and decorate appropriately for the holiday.

For a "Haunted History" Halloween Search, you can mount the documents on tombstone-shaped gray construction paper as Doris Waud of Fyle Elementary School in Rochester, New York did.

For Christmas you can tape small candy canes to the edges of the documents. Number each of the documents in a prominent place on the front. Set the documents out on display stands in the Media Center or classroom. Introduce the activity to the students by reviewing the questions and specifically, any terms that may need to be defined. Explain that although there is bibliographic information on the backs of the documents (and why it is there), the answers to the questions on the handouts come from examining the front. All documents should remain on the stands during the scavenger hunt. Tell students to begin and give them approximately 30 minutes to complete the activity. Circulate amongst the students and scaffold students who appear to be struggling by asking leading questions. At the end of the allotted time, collect the documents and review the answers with the students. Be sure to spend time discussing strategies they used or could have used to complete the activity. If the classroom teacher so chooses, he/she may follow up by using the documents as writing prompts for a writing activity.