QR Challenge: World Geography

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 the subregions of the United States
2. Which subregion in the US is known as the heartland?
3. List two causes of the Dust Bowl
4. What are the imaginary lines running parallel to the equator?
5. What are the imaginary lines that go over the poles?
6. Half of the earth is called?
7. Australia is found in which hemisphere?
8. The imaginary line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres
9. The imaginary line that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres
10. Which subregion in the US is called the Sunbelt?
11. Which country in North America is called a Cultural Mosaic?
12. Which country in North America is called a Melting Pot?
13. How many planets are found in our solar system?
14. What is Pluto's classification?
15. Cartographers use this to reduce distortions when making a flat map
16. A map that shows all the natural and man made features on earth
17. The shared knowledge of attitudes, language, traditions and beliefs of a group
18. The average amount of money earned by a person is called
19. Basic support systems to keep an economy going including power and roads
20. This involves the gathering of raw materials to make a final product
21. Resources that cannot be replaced once they are removed from the ground
22. Production of goods determned by the government
23. Production of goods determined by consumers
24. This is a form of government and an economy
25. A group of people witha common culture living in a territory and having a sense of Unity
26. The average number of people living in a measurable area
27. The number of deaths per thousand people
28. A religion that started in Southwest Asia around 613 A.D.
29. What do Christianity, Islam and Judaism have in common?
30. The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called
31. When society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation
32. A specific group that shares a language, customs and a common heritage

 

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