QR Challenge: Mountains & Volcanoes

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. The top of a mountain is called this	Summit
2. Another name for the height of a mountain	Elevation
3. You would begin your climb here	Base Camp
4. The name of the highest mountain in the world	Everest
5. This mountain can be found in Switzerland (tram hornet)	Matterhorn
6. This mountain can be found in Africa (jail monk air)	Kilimanjaro
7. He was the first man to climb Everest	Sir Edmund Hilary
8. The Andes can be found on this continent	South America
9. This can occur during the eruption of a volcano	Pyroclastic flow
10. The name of Europe's most active volcano	Etna
11. A device used to measure earthquakes	Seismograph
12. One of the four types of plate boundary (crimson pose)	Compression
13. The technique used to date eruptions from the past	Carbon dating
14. The focus point where an earthquake originates	Epicentre
15. An Indonesian name for a mudflow	Lahar
16. These are formed when plate boundaries collide	Mountain ranges

 

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