- This activity requires having enough 7-by-4 pill-organizers (sometimes called pill-keepers) to distribute to student groups.
- You can have as many student groups as you have pill-organizers to accommodate them.
- Pill-organizers can also be purchased at a low cost.
- Ideally, the pill organizers do not have clear box covers.
- Activity Setup:
- Put small trinkets into different boxes in the pill compartments.
- Not all compartments are included in the scavenger hunt, but all the compartments do contain trinkets.
- You can vary where the trinkets go in the pill organizer so that each group has a different answer.
- If you do not have pill-organizers, instructors could create inexpensive cardboard Bingo cards, and call out the numbers as cell addresses, instead of B8, use Bingo[0][7].
- Activity:
- Distribute pill-organizers to student groups.
- Introduce the scavenger hunt activity.
- Give each group a sheet of paper with a series of coordinates (for example: keeper[0][1]).
- On the worksheet they are asked to open the compartment and fill in the blank on the sheet about what was in the compartment.
- Have students answer questions like:
- arr[2][3] + arr[1][4]
- This is important because students may have difficulty using the values they get from array references in other calculations.