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.
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1. What is it called when a gas turns into a solid | 2. What is the second step in the scientific method? | 3. Burning, rusting and color change are examples of what? | 4. What is the name for the top of a wave? | 5. What would the solute be a solution of water mixed with sugar? | 6. There are how many centimeters in a meter stick? | 7. What is the name for an element that is shiny and conducts heat and electricity well? | 8. Is water an element or a compound? What is its chemical formula? | 9. What are two ways of separating a compound? | 10. Ag stands for which element? | 11. What is the term for anything that has mass and takes up space? | 12. Why would you weigh less on the moon than on Earth? | 13. What is the state of matter that flows, takes the shape of the container it is in and can be easily compressed? | 14. What is the name given for when a material can be rolled or pounded into thin sheets? You don't have to spell it correctly. | 15. What is the term used for the amount of gravity on an object called? |
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