Material Science Connecting Grid

Cosmic
Tunneling
Einstein
Alpha Particles
Electron
Cold Fusion
N-rays
Curie
Atomic
Force
X-rays  Optical Alzheimer's & Aluminum
California
Polywater
Ernest Rutherford
Gamma

Radioactive emissions: Cosmic, Gamma, Alpha Particles, X-rays
Pathological Science: Cold Fusion, N-rays, Polywater, Alzheimer's & Aluminum
Named elements after: Einstein, California, Ernest Rutherford, Niobe,
Microscopes: Electron, Optical, Tunneling, Atomic Force

Note: this is a great way to break the class randomly into groups by giving each student a square.

Game Rules: Your students should be broken down into teams. Explain to your students that there are four categories
and that each of those categories has four of the words in the grid. Each team will get a point for naming an
additional word in a category that is known or unknown at that time. Here is how it works in detail. Each
member of a team will postulate a propose a word. Then, a second teammate will select a second. If the two
words are in the same category their team gains a point. If not the next team is up. So it is possible if you
listen closely to obtain all the words in a category by random.
At any time after they have added a word, the team may identify the category for three points.
However if they are wrong their turn ends
When all four words are identified the team must identify the connection among the words or pass their turn
to the next group in line. When all the teams have had their chance and fail the category is disclosed.

Usually there is a single word that can connect all of the words in a category.
Here is an example: turn, 2, tube, & nit
answer: add a u to them and they become U turn, U tube, U2, and Unit


Cosmic
Tunneling
Einstein
Alpha Particles
Electron
Cold Fusion
N-rays
Curie
Atomic
Force
X-rays  Optical Alzheimer's & Aluminum
California
Polywater
Ernest Rutherford
Gamma