QR Challenge: Latin America Environmental Quiz Review

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. 1. What are the three main environmental problems in Latin America, and the COUNTRY in which they are impacting most.	Air pollution in Mexico City Oil pollution in Venezuela Deforestation in Brazil
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3. 2. What physical feature makes the air pollution problem in Mexico City even worse?	Sierra Madre Mountains
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5. 3. What country has the largest amount remaining rainforest in the world?	Brazil
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7. 4. What two things combine to make SMOG?	smoke and fog
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9. 5. The world gets about 20% of this resource from the Amazon Rain forest.	oxygen
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11. List TWO reasons the government of Brazil is allowing areas in the Amazon Rain Forest to be cleared.	Money for timber Farmland for people Building a major highway system
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13. 6. Name two things Mexico is doing to help with pollution	Day without a car Promoting public transportation Closing factories on days when pollution is at its highest
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15. 7. What is happening to the land around Lake Maracaibo?	The shore is dropping causing flooding in nearby towns from oil drilling
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17. 8. In relation to Georgia, about how many people live in Mexico City?	Twice the population of the STATE of Georgia

 

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