Grades 7–12 · Website scavenger hunt

Know Your District: A Web Research Hunt

For teachers: A 9-item research hunt with two short-response items (including a digital-citizenship prompt). Answers live across the district site and the place-based “Our Backyard” pages, which cite outside sources. Check the questions you want, then print — unchecked ones are left off and the rest renumber automatically. Expand the answer key below to print a teacher copy.

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Use the Montesano School District website (www.monteschools.org) to research each item. Use the Search box and the top menus. Everything you need is on our own site — no outside searching required.

NameDate

What year was the district founded, and what is its mascot?
🔎 Front page / Our District.
In “Our Backyard → Our Watershed,” name a salmon species that runs in our rivers, and state whether any salmon in the Chehalis Basin is federally (ESA) listed.
🔎 Search “watershed.”
From the Cascadia page, name the offshore fault that produces our region's largest earthquakes, and the three actions to take during shaking.
🔎 Search “Cascadia.”
The Satsop cooling towers: what were they built for, and what happened?
🔎 Search “Satsop.”
Lake Sylvia: what was the lake originally, and when did it become a state park?
🔎 Search “Lake Sylvia.”
Find the district's official page for filing a formal complaint or concern. What is it called?
🔎 Search “complaint.”
Name the three schools and their grade ranges, and who leads the district.
🔎 Our District.
Short response — digital citizenship: This site is run by the district and lives on the school's own web address. Give one reason information here can be more trustworthy than the first result of a random web search.
🔎 Your own thinking.
From any “Our Backyard” page, find a cited outside source (for example WDFW or USGS). Name the topic and the source.
🔎 Any Our Backyard page — check the links/sources.

Challenge

Visit that cited source, note one additional fact, and write one sentence evaluating how credible the source is and why.

Answer key (for teachers) — matches your selected questions

1.Founded 1863; the Bulldogs.
2.Chinook, coho, or chum (also steelhead/cutthroat). No salmon in the Chehalis Basin is ESA-listed — though several stocks are considered “depressed.”
3.The Cascadia Subduction Zone (can produce a ~magnitude 9). During shaking: Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
4.They were built for a nuclear power plant that was never finished / never opened.
5.It was a sawmill's mill pond (dating to 1871); it became a Washington state park in 1936.
6.The Citizen Complaint page (linked as “File a complaint or concern”). Share a Concern is the anonymous option.
7.Beacon (PreK–2), Simpson (3–6), MJSHS (7–12); Superintendent Dan Winter.
8.Answers vary — e.g., it's the official/authoritative source, maintained and accountable to the community, not an ad or an anonymous page trying to sell or mislead.
9.Varies (e.g., the Watershed page cites WDFW; the Cascadia page cites USGS / emergency-management sources).

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Know Your District: A Web Research Hunt

9 of 9 selected

Use the Montesano School District website (www.monteschools.org) to research each item. Use the Search box and the top menus. Everything you need is on our own site — no outside searching required.

NameDate

What year was the district founded, and what is its mascot?

🔎 Front page / Our District.

In “Our Backyard → Our Watershed,” name a salmon species that runs in our rivers, and state whether any salmon in the Chehalis Basin is federally (ESA) listed.

🔎 Search “watershed.”

From the Cascadia page, name the offshore fault that produces our region's largest earthquakes, and the three actions to take during shaking.

🔎 Search “Cascadia.”

The Satsop cooling towers: what were they built for, and what happened?

🔎 Search “Satsop.”

Lake Sylvia: what was the lake originally, and when did it become a state park?

🔎 Search “Lake Sylvia.”

Find the district's official page for filing a formal complaint or concern. What is it called?

🔎 Search “complaint.”

Name the three schools and their grade ranges, and who leads the district.

🔎 Our District.

Short response — digital citizenship: This site is run by the district and lives on the school's own web address. Give one reason information here can be more trustworthy than the first result of a random web search.

🔎 Your own thinking.

From any “Our Backyard” page, find a cited outside source (for example WDFW or USGS). Name the topic and the source.

🔎 Any Our Backyard page — check the links/sources.

Challenge

Visit that cited source, note one additional fact, and write one sentence evaluating how credible the source is and why.

Answer key (for teachers) — matches your selected questions

1.Founded 1863; the Bulldogs.
2.Chinook, coho, or chum (also steelhead/cutthroat). No salmon in the Chehalis Basin is ESA-listed — though several stocks are considered “depressed.”
3.The Cascadia Subduction Zone (can produce a ~magnitude 9). During shaking: Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
4.They were built for a nuclear power plant that was never finished / never opened.
5.It was a sawmill's mill pond (dating to 1871); it became a Washington state park in 1936.
6.The Citizen Complaint page (linked as “File a complaint or concern”). Share a Concern is the anonymous option.
7.Beacon (PreK–2), Simpson (3–6), MJSHS (7–12); Superintendent Dan Winter.
8.Answers vary — e.g., it's the official/authoritative source, maintained and accountable to the community, not an ad or an anonymous page trying to sell or mislead.
9.Varies (e.g., the Watershed page cites WDFW; the Cascadia page cites USGS / emergency-management sources).