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. Newton's 2nd law shows the relationship among what 3 quantities? | force, mass, acceleration | 2. A ball that is rolled into a wall bounces back after hitting the wall. This shows which law? | 3rd law- action/reaction | 3. According to Newton's 1st law, what happens to a moving object if the forces acting on it are balanced? | it will stay at rest | 4. If you are on a canoe paddling backward, what is the name of the opposite force that pushes you forward? | reaction force | 5. A change in speed or direction is known as? | acceleration | 6. A hurricane moves 85 miles per hour, northeast. This motion is an example of? | velocity |
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