QR Challenge: weather vs climate

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 Meteorologists are describing this when they give the current conditions of the atmosphere.	#1
2. #2 Meteorologists make many measurements to describe this.	#2
3. #3 Climatologists study this.	#3
4. #4 Long-term patterns in weather.	#4
5. #5 A thunderstorm is......	#5
6. #6 A snowstorm is .....	#6
7. #7 A global change in temperature over time.	#7
8. #8 The average weather conditions in a particular location or region at a particular time of year.	#8
9. #9 Measurements of regional weather recorded over 30 years or more.	#9
10. #10 A measure of change in the average temperature from year to year.	#10
11. #11 Determines the habitat and food an area.	#11
12. #12 Today's wind speed and direction.	#12
13. #13 The expectation of snow in the Northeast in January or for it to be hot and humid in the Southeast in July.	#13
14. #14 Today was a record high Temperature of 40 degrees.	#14
15. #15 In the forecast it is expected to be 72 and sunny.	#15

 

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