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. The tilt of this causes the seasons to change | Earth's axis | 2. When the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, it is what season? | summer | 3. This imaginary line circles the Earth halfway between the poles | the equator | 4. It takes one year for Earth to revolve around this | the sun | 5. This is one of the four parts of the year | a season | 6. Earth's orbit is in this shape | an ellipse | 7. Earth's rotation on its axis causes this | day and night | 8. The sun appears to rise in the ____ | east | 9. The sun appears to set in the _____ | west | 10. When one side of the earth is facing the Sun, the other side is facing this | darkness | 11. If it is summer in Georgia, it is this season in Australia | winter |
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