QR Challenge: Grade 5 Matter

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Everything on the earth is made of these small particles	atoms
2. These combine to make molecules	atoms
3. This state of matter is very strong and has a definite volume and shape	solid
4. The molecules in a solid move this way	Vibrate
5. What is needed to change a solid's shape	force or heat
6. If a liquid is cooled enough it will change into a	solid
7. Water changing from a liquid to a solid is an example of this type of change	physical
8. Solids have a definite	shape
9. Liquids take the shape of	the container
10. The molecules in liquids are	not as close together as a solid
11. If you heat a liquid enough it turns into a	gas
12. This state of matter is often not seen	gas
13. Air is a mixture of	nitrogen and oxygen
14. True or false? Gas particles have no weight.	False
15. The molecules in a gas are	far apart and move quickly
16. Heat causes molecules to move this way	faster
17. Gas will always fill the ___ that it is in	container
18. Trail mix is an example of a	Mixture
19. True or False? Glass is a mixture	True
20. Substances that are not easy to separate are called	solution
21. Putting sugar into coffee causes the sugar to	dissolve
22. The coffee that causes the sugar to dissolve is called the	solvent
23. The sugar that dissolves in the coffee is called	solute
24. In a solution the substance that is dissolved is called	solute
25. Heat always travels from the____ to the ___	hotter object to colder

 

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