QR Challenge: Solar System

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. VOCAB: traveling in a closed path	1
2. It takes the moon ___________ Earth days to complete one rotation.	2
3. __________ are large, round bodies that revolve around a star (such as the sun). In our solar system there are 9 of these, including one dwarf planet.	3
4. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	4
5. VOCAB: spinning on an axis	5
6. __________ are chunks of rock that have been described as looking like giant potatoes in the sky. Some are as large as small planets, and some are the size of basketballs.	6
7. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	7
8. VOCAB: an imaginary line that passes through the Earth’s center and its North and South Poles __________.	8
9. Galileo used a __________ to observe four of Jupiter’s moons	9
10. Animals with dry scaly skin are called __________.	10
11. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	11
12. __________, which are chunks of ice and rock, circle the sun from two regions beyond the orbit of Pluto.	12
13. Any natural or artificial object that orbits another object is called a __________.	13
14. A __________ is a vehicle that is used to explore deep Space. Rover is an example of this.	14
15. VOCAB: occurs when Earth passes through a new moon’s shadow	15
16. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	16
17. VOCAB: the path the Earth takes as it revolves	17
18. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	18
19. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	19
20. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	20
21. The sun rises in the ________ and sets in the _______.	21
22. There are ________ time zones in the world	22
23. VOCAB: occurs when the full moon passes through Earth’s shadow	23
24. Flip over this code and name that phase of the moon	24

 

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