QR Challenge: QR Codes with 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. On which continent do you live?	North America
2. Our country is made up of fifty parts called?2	States2
3. Are the largest bodies of land on Earth called mountains, continents, or countries?3	continents3
4. Write the initials of the 8 points on the compass rose.4	N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW4
5. What is the name for a model of the earth?5	globe5
6. What is the name for a flat drawing of a place?6	map6
7. Which ocean touches Alaska, the Atlantic or the Artic?7	Artic7
8. Which ocean does not end with the letter C?8	Indian8
9. Which is Canada, a country, a city or a state?9	country8
10. Name one state that does not touch or border any other state.9	Alaska, Hawaii9
11. Which has land all around it, a lake or an ocean?10	lake10
12. Name a country besides the United States that is located in North America11	Canada,Mexico11
13. What states border your state?12	Idaho,Oregon12
14. What three oceans touch the United States?13	Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic13
15. What is the name of the imaginary line that is halfway between the north pole and the south pole?14	equator14
16. What do we call the lines that separate states on a map?15	borders15

 

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