1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. How many blocks are there in the periodic table? | 4 | 2. What type of element is used in the shortcut for electronic configuration? | Noble Gas | 3. What type of diagram can be used to show the valence electrons of an element? | Lewis Dot Diagram | 4. What types of elements are there? | Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals | 5. What is the only element that is liquid at room temperature? | Mercury | 6. If you were looking to configure Calcium, what element would be the “shortcut”? | Argon | 7. What type of element is Nitrogen? (metal, metalloid, or nonmetal)? | nonmetal | 8. What periods are considered transitions metals? | Groups 3-12 | 9. What are 2 elements share the same characteristics as Chlorine? | Fluorine, Bromine | 10. What is the least electronegativity pulling power? | Francium | 11. What is the electronic configuration for Mercury? | [Xe] 6s25d10 | 12. What are some characteristics of Nonmetals? | Brittle, no luster, and poor conductors | 13. What are the metalloids? | B, Si, Ge, As, Sb, Te, Po, At | 14. What are the elements in group 2 called as? | Alkaline Earth Metals | 15. What period and group is Bismuth in? | Group 5A, Period 6 | 16. How many groups are there in the periodic table? | 18 | 17. How many periods are there in the periodic table? | 7 | 18. Currently, how many elements are there? | 118 | 19. How many metalloids are in the periodic table? | 8 | 20. Are the metals on the left or right side of periodic table? | left | 21. What type of element is Hydrogen? | nonmetal | 22. What is the most reactive non-metal? | Flourine | 23. What is the most reactive metal? | Francium | 24. What period are the rare earth metals in? | 6 | 25. What period are the radioactive metals in? | 7 | 26. What are the two series in the f block? | Lanthanide and Actinide | 27. As you move down the periodic table, does energy increase or decrease? | Decrease | 28. What is Electronegativity? | The ability of an atom of element to attract electrons | 29. What signifies the number of valence electrons? | The group | 30. What signifies the number of energy levels? | The period |
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