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. Which is the only country in the world to be named after an element?1 | argentina1 | 2. Which elements are named after countries?2 | Germanium, Francium, Americinium, Polonium2 | 3. What is the most abundant element in the universe?3 | hydrogen3 | 4. What is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?4 | oxygen4 | 5. What was the first element to be made artificially?5 | Technetium5 | 6. What is the lightest symbol with with a chemical symbol not related to its English name?6 | Sodium (Na)6 | 7. What is the only letter that does not appear on the Periodic Table?7 | J | 8. Which elements exist as liquids at room temperature?8 | Bromine and Mercury | 9. Which element used to be known as "Quicksilver"?9 | Mercury | 10. Which elements in the Periodic table are magnetic?10 | Iron, cobalt and nickel |
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