QR Challenge: Weather- Beaty, Smith

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. List 3 Catostrophic Events.	Storms, Earthquakes, Volcanoes
2. Describe air pressure.	The force exerted on you by the weight of tiny particles of air
3. Write how many people died i the article \"Asian Earthquake Tragedy\".	50,000
4. Interpret what a dew point is.	a measure of moisture; shows how much you\'d have to cool the air to get a relative humidity of 100 percent
5. Write the definition of a barometer.	measures the air pressure around us
6. Write the definition of a surface current	wind that moves only the upper few hundred meters of water
7. Compare and contrast an anemometer and a barometer	anemometer measures how fast the air is moving; barometer measures the air pressure
8. Distinguish what a blue \"H\" means	the center of high pressure
9. Distinguish what a geyser is	hot spring that periodically erupts
10. Where should tourists goto see a geyser?	Yellowstone National park

 

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