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. In a compound, how are the different elements combined? | chemically | 2. What element's atoms has the number of protons represented by the room number?16 | Si16 | 3. What is the only metalloid in the group?13 | B13 | 4. What group in the PT has the valence electrons represented by the room #?6 | sixteen6 | 5. What is the smallest part of a compound?2 | molecule2 | 6. How do the elements/atoms in a compound form a chemical bond?3 | in a specific ratio3 | 7. What is required for a compound to form?4 | energy4 | 8. Who was the first person to call the smallest piece of uncuttable matter "atomos"?5 | democritus5 | 9. Who described the atom as a positive sphere with negative charges scattered in it?7 | thomson7 | 10. Who described the atom as a positive center with electrons traveling on orbits?8 | bohr8 | 11. What familiy is very reactive and never found uncombined in nature?9 | Alkali metals9 | 12. What is the symbol for Potassium?10 | K10 | 13. What family is very unreactive and are all nonmetals?11 | noble gases11 | 14. What element's atom has the same number of electrons as the room #?12 | Na12 | 15. What 2 elements's atoms could have the same amount of neutrons as the room #?14 | F,Ne14 | 16. What family on the PT corresponds to the room #?15 | halogens15 | 17. How many valence electrons does the element whose atomic #matches the room # have?17 | five17 | 18. How many energy regions would an atom in the period that matches the room # have?18 | seven18 | 19. What is unique about the element whose atomic # matches the room #?19 | one of the 2 liquids19 | 20. What is the atomic mass of the element whose atomic # matches the room #?20 | 74.92120 | 21. What element's atom has the same # of electrons as the room #?21 | Ba21 | 22. What model describes the atom as a postively charged nucleus with e- moving randomly around it?22 | rutherford | 23. What is the difference between the cloud & modern cloud model of the atom?23 | neutrons in modern23 | 24. What is the element name whose atomic # matches the room #?25 | cesium | 25. What period does the element whose atomic # matches the room# belong to?24 | six24 |
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