This activity is designed so that you apply all the things you learned during the unit to solve a puzzle.
Academic Chemistry
Print out the answer sheet: Answer Sheet
Print out the clues: Clues
Print out the word bank: Word Bank
In order to get a better idea of how this works, I will do an example for you.
Look at your clues paper and read #1.
Most people think lead is in the center of your pencil, but it is not.
Therefore C is lead. Go to your word bank and cross off Lead (Pb). Then go to your answer sheet and next to the letter C write lead for the element and Pb for the symbol.
Pencils are really made of carbon (also known as graphite). Go to your word bank and cross off Carbon (C). Then go to your answer sheet and next to the letter A write carbon for the element and C for the symbol.
Now cross of clue #1. You are done with this clue.
Sometimes you may need to skip a clue and come back to it later.
Honors Chemistry
Print out the answer sheet: Answer Sheet
Print out the clues: Clues
In order to get a better idea of how this works, I will do an example for you.
Look at your clues paper and read #1.
A is an alkaline earth metal who has one less proton than neutrons.
Alkaline earth metals are group 2 so this element is in group 2.
As you look down the group, Be has 4 protons and 5 neutrons. Therefore A is Be.
On you answer sheet that you printed, write A under the element Be (in Be's block).
Now cross of clue #1. You are done with this clue.
Sometimes you may need to skip a clue and come back to it later.