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. At what latitude and longitude was the primary target of Cyclone Tracy? | 12.5 latitude 130.5 longitude | 2. How many people were affected by Tracy? | 48000 or the entire population of Darwin at the time | 3. Who organised the evacuation? | Major-General Alan Stretton | 4. List 5 reasons for the evacuation of most of the population | infrastructure destroyed - sanitation, communication, power, water, ... | 5. Who were among the first to be evacuated? | sick, elderly, women and children | 6. What category was Tracy? | 4 | 7. What are the features of the cyclone category for Tracy? | http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/about/intensity.shtml | 8. If you lived in 1974, what would you have asked Santa for? | teacher check | 9. You arrived through the portal at the age you are now. How old would you be in 2012? | approx 51 | 10. What are 5 differences between Darwin before Cyclone Tracy and Darwin today? | teacher check | 11. List what you would need in a cyclone kit | teacher check |
At what latitude and longitude was the primary target of Cyclone Tracy?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 11)
How many people were affected by Tracy?&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 11)
Who organised the evacuation?&choe=UTF-8
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List 5 reasons for the evacuation of most of the population&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 11)
Who were among the first to be evacuated?&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 11)
What category was Tracy?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the features of the cyclone category for Tracy?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 11)
If you lived in 1974, what would you have asked Santa for?&choe=UTF-8
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You arrived through the portal at the age you are now. How old would you be in 2012?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 11)
What are 5 differences between Darwin before Cyclone Tracy and Darwin today?&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 11)
List what you would need in a cyclone kit&choe=UTF-8
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