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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is the layer underneath the earth’s crust called? | the mantle | 2. Why do tectonic plates move? | nuclear reactions in the core cause plumes of magma to rise in convection currents, dragging the overlying crust around. | 3. How is oceanic crust different to continental crust? | it is younger, denser, less thick | 4. Plate boundary where two plates move apart? | constructive | 5. Plate boundary where two plates slide past each other? | conservative | 6. Plate boundary where oceanic crust subducts below continental crust? | destructive | 7. Case study of a destructive plate boundary? | Nazca subducts below western edge of the S.American plate | 8. Case study of a constructive plate boundary? | N.American moving away from Eurasian in the mid Atlantic | 9. Case study of a conservative plate boundary? | San Andreas where the Pacific slides past the North American plate | 10. Explain how fold mountains are formed? | Sedimentary rocks are created on ocean floors. Colliding continents squash and fold sediments into mountain ranges eg Himalayas | 11. Name an ocean trench. How was it formed? | Chile-Peru trench, the edge of the Nazca plate subducts at an angle | 12. Why do volcanoes occur at destructive plate boundaries? | subducted oceanic crust melts, acidic magma rising to form composite volcanoes. | 13. Why do volcanoes occur at constructive plate boundaries? | basic magma spills out of cracks between diverging plates, forming shield volcanoes. | 14. List four human uses of fold mountains | Tourism, HEP, mining and farming | 15. What is transhumance farming? | animals graze mountain sides in summer, housed and fed in barns in winter. | 16. Name an example of an iron ore farm near Chamonix | Eisernerz |
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