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. When you are working to save or protect resources you are practicing what? | conservation | 2. One of the largest land areas on Earth are called what? | continents | 3. The study of Earth and the way people use it is called what? | geography | 4. What is a model of Earth called? | Globe | 5. A kind of land, such as a mountain is a ? | landform | 6. What is something found in nature that people use to meet their needs called? | resource | 7. What is a community built near a city called? | suburb | 8. On what type of land would you find a cactus? | dry, hot, and sandy | 9. What does climate tell you about a place? | what kind of weather a place usually has | 10. What are the FOUR cardinal directions? | North, south, east, and west | 11. List three things people can do to help protect natural resources. | reduce how much they use, reuse things instead of buying new ones, recycle materials to be used again |
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