The ChallengesEach challenge is provided to the students on a separate sheet for them to work on as a group (or most likely divide and conquer). The general layout is the same as each challenge contains a word problem, a clue for the topic of focus for the problem (i.e. "Heat", "Elastic Potential Energy", etc.) and a letter to be used in the puzzle The beauty of this task is that the built-in check for students to confirm their answer is to see if any other challenges arrive at the same value. As groups progress, it becomes pretty clear which solutions don't belong in a pile and students work together to revisit their work or ask for help. Since this task was written as a final review for the IB Physics curriculum there are a lot of different topics that may not appear in a typical high school physics class. That said, it would be fairly easy to swap out the problems as needed, just make sure that the final answer stays the same (something that I found was not always as easy as I thought it would be...) The RevealOk. All of the calculations have been done and students notice that the answers are all landing on the same 4 values with units of Joules.
They make their piles accordingly and unscramble the pages until a word appears. An example of four challenges with the same answer are shown below.
If done correctly for each answer, they should see the following 4 secret words emerge:  It's at this point that I remind them that the task isn't to find the words but to determine what they all have in common. While technically, they are all gems or precious stones, I tell them that the answer to the puzzle has something to do with the task as a whole... They are all JEWELS (Joules)! 😂 Is this entire task just a set up for a dumb energy units pun? Yes. Yes it is... FilesAs mentioned above, the questions can to be adjusted to fit with the content covered in the class using the editable files. I found that this format works really nicely as a review that's a little more engaging than a worksheet or practice test. :)
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