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. Define Fronts | boundary between 2 air masses of different temperatures | 2. Explain the relationship between thunder storms and lightning | thunder storms produce lightning | 3. Write when the Eastern hurricane season begins | May 15 | 4. Employ what the geostrophic wind is | an idealization in which the pressure gradient force is balanced by the Coriolis Effect | 5. Choose the correct name for the symbol which represents 3 lines on top of each other | fog | 6. Choose the correct name for the symbol which represents an upside-down triangle | showers | 7. Compare high pressure to low pressure | high pressure areas are sunny and dry while low pressure areas are rainy and cold | 8. Contrast hurricanes to tornadoes | hurricanes form above water while tornadoes form on land | 9. Examine why most heat disorders occur | because the victim has over exersized while over exposed to heat | 10. Differentiate extreme cold to extreme heat | extreme cold is windy with blizzards and extreme heat is too hot causing you to be dehydrated |
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