Energy: The Power to Choose Scavenger Hunt
Text History:
Written by David Paul - April 4, 2012
(Some text has been re-used from the Children’s Day and Maritime Adventure Scavenger Hunts)
Reviewed by Catherine Emond – April 11, 2012
Revised by Erin Poulton – 13 April 2012
Note: Text in italics is for reference and context only—do not translate.
[Layout: letter-sized paper, 8 folds to create a booklet]
[Cover Page:]
Eco-Quest
Explore the Energy: Power to Choose exhibition and answer the following questions. Be sure to look at the pictures with each question—they are clues that will help you. [Note that there is no image with the question about the bicycle (for obvious reasons, haha!), so maybe reword this sentence as: “Be sure to look at the images with some [or: most] of the questions—they are clues that will help you.”]
Once you’ve finished, make sure to include your name, phone number and e-mail address, then drop your booklet into the contest box. We’ll be making a draw [each day/on XXX, 2012/whatever] for a $35 gift certificate from the Museum’s Scientique Boutique, and you could be the lucky winner! [Or: “and you could be one of the lucky winners!” if there will be more than one]
Good luck!
[Each question equals one fold]
1. Close to the main entrance of the Energy: Power to Choose exhibition there is a giant cube suspended from the ceiling. This cube represents the carbon dioxide emissions produced each day by:
a) a car
b) an average Canadian
c) Canadian Parliament
[Answer: B
Image: the CO2 cube]
2. Look near the population counter at the main entrance to the exhibition. Name one energy-consuming product that was created after 1970.
[Answer: multiple answers are possible
Image: of the panel with the timeline on it]
3. In the coal section of the exhibition, there is a miner’s uniform. It was worn during the Westray mining accident that took place in Plymouth, Nova Scotia in 1992. Name the man who wore this uniform.
_ i _ h _ _ l F r _ _ e r _ _ k _ a c K a _
[Answer: Michael Frederick MacKay
Image: of the mining uniform]
4. I have two wheels and two pedals. What am I?
[Answer: a bicycle]
5. When the wind blows through my fan, I generate [Or: “produce”, if “generate” is too big a word for your target audience, which I’m assuming might be 7-8 years old or so and up?] power. What am I?
a) a wind turbine
b) a hair dryer
c) a windmill
[Answer: A wind turbine
Image: of a turbine]
6. I am a species of knifefish that can generate up to 600 volts of electricity. What am I?
[Answer: electric eel
Image: eel tank]
[Last Page:]
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