QR Challenge: Science Christmas Quiz

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. Question:What is another name for a reindeer?	?
2. Question:What is a comet?	?
3. A ball of ice, dust and rock particles.	?
4. Question:How are snow flakes formed?	?
5. When cloud temperatures reach freezing point,ice crystals form around dust particles.	?
6. Caribou.	?
7. Question:Mrs Claus is putting Christmas lights around 8 windows. Each window is 3.5ft wide, and 5 foot long. How many feet of lights does she need?	?
8. Question:Father Christmas takes 5 hours to fly his sleigh 555 miles. For the first part of the trip, the average speed was 105 mph. Then Rudolph caught the scent of some delicious carrots at the next house, and upped the speed to 115 mph. How many hours did the sleigh fly at 105mph?	?
9. 2	?
10. Question:How many caolories does the average person in the UK consume on Christmas day?	?
11. Question:How many sides do snow crystals have?	?
12. 6	?
13. 136	?
14. Question:A large male reindeer has a mass of 300kg. What size force is this in Newtons?	?
15. 3000	?
16. Question:In order to avoid all of your fairy lights going out when one bulb fails, what type of cicuit should you use?	?
17. Parallel	?
18. Question:Which of the three Wisemens' gifts would you find in toothpaste as prevention and treatment of gum disease?	?
19. Myrrh	?
20. 6000	?

 

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