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. 1. Which element in a water molecule has a slightly positive charge? | hydrogen | 2. 2. What does the phrase "like dissolves like" mean? | Things with similar properties tend to dissolve in each other | 3. 3. LiOH is an ionic molecule. Would it be more likely to dissolve in water or acetone? | water | 4. 4. 10mL of ethanol is dissolved in 40mL of water. Which substance is the solute? | ethanol | 5. 5. What are hydrogen bonds? | the attraction between partial charges in molecules with H bonded to F, O, or N | 6. 6. What is cohesion? | molecules being attracted to each other | 7. 7. What is adhesion? | molecules being attracted to different molecules | 8. 8. Which property of water explains why it forms droplets? | cohesion | 9. 9. What is surface tension? | attraction of molecules that keeps them from escaping the surface | 10. 10. When an ionic substance dissolves it separates into ions that are surrounded be a shell of water. The metal ion is positive - which element in water surrounds it to cause it to dissolve? | oxygen | 11. 11. If a substance is soluble in water but is a nonelectrolyte, what type of solute is it most likely? | polar covalent | 12. 12. If a substance is insoluble in water, what kind of solute is it most likely? | nonpolar | 13. 13. If a substance is soluble in water and is an electrolyte, what type of solute is it most likely? | ionic | 14. 14. True or false: Only solids and liquids can be solutions. | False | 15. 15. What is a solution? | a homogeneous mixture | 16. 16. What does it mean to say a substance is nonpolar? | the elements in the compound share electrons equally and there is no partial charge | 17. 17. What causes polarity? | a difference in electronegativity | 18. 18. What is electronegativity? | the pull an element has on an electron in a bond | 19. 19. Why is water called the universal solvent? | it has unique properties that allow it to dissolve a variety of substances | 20. 20. True or false: pure water is an electrolyte. | false |
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