QR Challenge: Latin America Geography

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. This is the largest river (by volume of water) in the world and it runs through the northern regions of South America	Amazon
2. This mountain range is found in South America	Andes
3. This desert is found just to the west of the Andes Mountains in South America, mostly in northern Chile	Atacama
4. This South American country is landlocked, bordered by Brazil to the east and north	Bolivia
5. This country, the largest in South America	Brazil
6. This body of water to the north of South America contains the countries of Cuba and Jamaica	Caribbean Sea
7. This country is bordered to the east by Venezuela and to the west by Panama	Colombia
8. This Caribbean country lies to the south of Florida and is the only Communist government in the Western Hemisphere	Cuba
9. This body of water touches Mexico and the American states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida	Gulf of Mexico
10. This country came under Spanish control in the 1500s, and since 1917 has been a representative, democratic republic with a presidential system	Mexico
11. This body of water stretches from North and South America westward to Australia and the eastern coast of Asia	Pacific Ocean
12. This country is located in an isthmus between Central and South America	Panama
13. This connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America	Panama Canal
14. This mountain range is divided into five smaller ranges in Mexico	Sierra Madre
15. This country is one of the major exporters of oil in the Western Hemisphere	Venezuela
16. Small country that shares its border with the Dominican Republic	Haiti

 

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