1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Our _____ _____ includes the sun, planets and many smaller objects. | solar system | 2. The average distance between the earth and the sun; approximately 150 million kilometers. (symbol AU) | astronomical unit | 3. How far does light travel in 1 s? | 300 km/s | 4. The inner planets are also called _______ planets because their surfaces are dense and rocky. | terrestrial | 5. The ____ planets are the planets closest to the sun. | inner or terrestrial | 6. The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and ______. | Mars | 7. The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, ____ and ______. | Uranus and Neptune | 8. The outer planets are composed mostly of _____. | gases | 9. The planet closest to the sun. | Mercury | 10. It takes Mercury to rotate once in ______ days. | 58 | 11. The number of days it takes Mercury to complete one revolution around the sun is _____. | 88 | 12. On this planet, the sun rises in the west and sets in teh east. | Venus | 13. This planet is called the Earth's twin. | Venus | 14. The atmosphere of Venus is very high due to its _______ effect. | greenhouse | 15. Earth has _____ rotation because it spins in a counterclockwise direction or in the same direction as the sun's rotation. | prograde | 16. Venus has a _____ rotation because it spins in a clockwise direction. | retrograde | 17. The only planet that supports life is ____. | Earth | 18. Earth's period of revolution is ____ days. | 365 | 19. The planet that showed evidence of once having water is ____. | Mars | 20. many scientists believe that water is frozen beneath the soil and stored in polar ice caps of this planet. | Mars | 21. mars has ____ large volcanic systems. | two |
Our _____ _____ includes the sun, planets and many smaller objects.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 21)
The average distance between the earth and the sun; approximately 150 million kilometers. (symbol AU)&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 21)
How far does light travel in 1 s?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 21)
The inner planets are also called _______ planets because their surfaces are dense and rocky.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 21)
The ____ planets are the planets closest to the sun.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 21)
The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and ______.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 21)
The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, ____ and ______.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 21)
The outer planets are composed mostly of _____.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 21)
The planet closest to the sun.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 21)
It takes Mercury to rotate once in ______ days.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 21)
The number of days it takes Mercury to complete one revolution around the sun is _____.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 21)
On this planet, the sun rises in the west and sets in teh east.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 21)
This planet is called the Earth's twin.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 21)
The atmosphere of Venus is very high due to its _______ effect.&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 21)
Earth has _____ rotation because it spins in a counterclockwise direction or in the same direction as the sun's rotation.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 21)
Venus has a _____ rotation because it spins in a clockwise direction.&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 21)
The only planet that supports life is ____.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 21)
Earth's period of revolution is ____ days.&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 21)
The planet that showed evidence of once having water is ____.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 21)
many scientists believe that water is frozen beneath the soil and stored in polar ice caps of this planet.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 21)
mars has ____ large volcanic systems.&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 21)
