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. (Is the United States located in the Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere? | Northern hemisphere) | 2. (Which term means the total value of goods and services a country produces per year? | Gross Domestic Product) | 3. (The Prime Meridian divides the world into which two hemispheres? | Eastern and Western) | 4. (____________ describes where a geographic feature is located by referring to other features around it. | Relative Location) | 5. (What term describes people who leave their country and come to another country to start a new life? | immigration) | 6. (Why do people think that urban sprawl is a bad thing? | It leads to habitat loss.) |
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