QR Challenge: Ecology

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What are the three components (parts) of Earth?	Air, Water, Land
2. How are renewable and non-renewable resources different?	Renewable resources can be replaced. Non-renewable resources cannot.
3. What are natural resources?	Resources that come from nature that people can use.
4. What is pollution?	Anything that makes air, land or water dirty.
5. What is conservation?	Saving Earth's resources for the future.
6. What is the atmosphere?	The layer of air that surrounds Earth.
7. Is water a renewable or non-renewable resource?	Renewable
8. Is oil a renewable or non-renewable resource?	Non-renewable
9. Is a deer a renewable or non-renewable resource?	Renewable
10. Is soil a renewable or non-renewable resource?	Renewable

 

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