QR Challenge: Geography Hunt

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. Home to the first hydroelectric plant that was built in 1882	Wisconsin
2. The name of the state comes from the Aleut word meaning "great land"	Alaska
3. The first Olympics games in the Western Hemisphere were held in St. Louis in 1904, and won every track-and-field event!	Missouri
4. It is the only state that has the lowest point and the highest point in the 48 connected states	California
5. Home to Pikes Peak	Colorado
6. The Cherokee rose is the state flower	Georgia
7. Anywhere you stand in this state you are within 85 miles from a Great Lake	Michigan
8. This state has the only Royal Palace	Hawaii
9. The Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave system, is found in this state	Kentucky
10. Augusta is this state's capital	Maine
11. Home to Mount St. Helens	Washington
12. Waterskiing was invented in the state in 1922	Minnesota
13. The capital of this state is Hartford	Connecticut
14. The first European colony was founded here	Florida
15. Home to the geyser Old Faithful	Wyoming
16. This state is "The Land of Lincoln"	Illinois
17. Home to Americas only diamond mine	Arkansas
18. The first nearly complete remains of T-Rex was unearthed in this state	Montana
19. This state is sinking	Louisiana
20. It is known as "The Cornhusker State"	Nebraska
21. Grand Mt. Monadnock is the most climbed mountain in the world. This is found in what state?	New Hampshire
22. First state to ratify the Constitution in 1787	Delaware
23. This state has the oldest capital in the United States	New Mexico
24. This state is home to a 10 story sand dune	Indiana
25. The heart of Dixie is the state nickname of?	Alabama
26. This state was the first state to require license plates on cars	New York
27. Roanoke Island was also known as the "Lost Colony" can be found in this state	North Carolina
28. First electric traffic signals were installed in this state	Ohio
29. This state has no natural made lakes, only artificial lakes	Maryland
30. The only state capital building to have an active oil well on its property	Oklahoma
31. Home to Mount Rushmore	South Dakota
32. Home to Hoover Dam	Nevada
33. Home to Crater Lake, formed when a volcano collapsed 8,000 years ago	Oregon
34. The banana split was first created in this state	Pennsylvania
35. The world's first heart transplant into a human was performed in a Jackson Hospital in 1964	Mississippi
36. Providence is the capital of this state	Rhode Island
37. This state is the geographic center of the 48 connected states	Kansas
38. Was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860	South Carolina
39. The Grand Canyon can be found in this state.	Arizona
40. This state has the first and only national park named after a person	North Dakota
41. Home to Elvis	Tennessee
42. The states name comes from the Caddo Indian word, which means "friend"	Texas
43. The first U.S. solar power plant is located in this state	Utah
44. In this state the first nuclear power plant was built	Idaho
45. Volley and basketball were both first played and invented in this state	Massachusetts
46. The first state to provide free delivery of mail into rural areas	West Virginia
47. Thomas Edison developed the first movie camera in this state	New Jersey
48. Home to the Green Mountain Boys during the America Revolution	Vermont
49. This state is home to Field of Dreams	Iowa
50. Home to the first permanent English settlement in North America	Virginia

 

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