Mark Twain Web Quest: Meet Mark Twain
Use your webquest booklet to complete the following tasks:
BOOKLET PAGE 2: Learn about Mark Twain in this short biography.
BOOKLET PAGE 3-4: Learn about Mark Twain by watching this powerpoint. Click "Slide Show" in the menu bar and start from the beginning.
Try this presentation! You may get additional information.
BOOKLET PAGES 5-6: Tour The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. Antique Searchers look at Twain's Hartford Home
BOOKLET PAGE 7: Mark Twain's family tree can be viewed here.
Mark Twain's memory building game was designed to make learning history enjoyable. Test your knowledge of Mark Twain's Life by playing the first level of Memory Building.
BOOKLET PAGE 7: River boats played an important part in Hannibal and in Twain's life. Why? The Mississippi River flowed passed the back porches of many houses and businesses in the town.
Look at the map of Hannibal and trace the path of the river through the state. In the 1800s, why would a river be so important?
Check out river boats. Read about the kinds of boats the floated down the Mississippi. Which ones might have gone by Hannibal? Listen to the sounds of the Mississippi by clicking on each boat. Mark twain!
BOOKLET PAGE 8: The Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal is fascinating! See Becky Thatcher's house, learn about Hannibal, Missouri and even e-mail yourself a postcard from Hannibal and Jackson Island!
McDougal's Cave
Can you imagine being stranded in a cave like Tom and Becky? Well, that cave really exists. Check out the following before entering McDougal's Cave:
Can you imagine being stranded in a cave like Tom and Becky? Well, that cave really exists. Check out the following before entering McDougal's Cave:
- Explore a virtual cave here and see just what's inside the rocks.
- Check out Bridal Cave Kids'Page to see how rocks grow, what caves are made of and even check out Max the Bat. Are you ready? Take a visit to McDougal's Cave. Bring a flashlight....and watch out for spiders and bats! Choose "Cave Pictures" to see inside the cave. There you will be able to actuallyenter the caverns by clicking on the movie. Stay close and don't get lost. Shhhhh, do you hear Injun Joe?
- Click here to enter the cave if you dare!