QR Challenge: Living in the Sahara, Sahel, Savanna, and Rainforests

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. Small places in the desert where a spring of fresh water is available.	Oasis
2. What do the availability of Oasis allow people to do?	Farm and graze animals
3. Most of the people who live in the Sahara today are...	Nomads
4. Hundreds of years ago the most valuable resources traded across the Sahara were..	Gold and Salt
5. This group of people live in the Sahara desert. They are nomadic and their name means "free men".	Tuareg
6. What is one of the problems the Sahel faces as the land becomes drier and faces overuse?	Desertification
7. What are some of the ways that people on the Sahel make a living?	Herding animals, traditional ways of making a living, subsistence farming.
8. What crops are commonly grown on the Sahel?	Millet and Peanuts.
9. What economic activity do most people who live on the Savanna do?	Farm
10. What are the main crops that are grown on the Savanna?	Wheat, Oats, Sorghum
11. What is the largest threat to the African Savanna?	People, growth of towns and cities, creation of farms on the Savanna.
12. Countries like Kenya and Tanzania have created what on the Savanna to try and save and protect the animals and the land?	national parks
13. Throughout most of Africa's history, who has called the rain forest home and how did they live there?	small groups of people who survived by gathering wood and living off of subsistence farms.
14. When Europeans arrived on the continent how did the treatment of the rain forest change?	land was cleared for large plantations and people who had lived in the rain forest were forced to work on these plantations.
15. Why are the rain forest being destroyed today?	commercial logging, building of roads.
16. What effect is deforestation having on the continent of Africa	extinction of both plants and animals and soil erosion and desertification.

 

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