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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Go look outside media center for first clue | Good luck! | 2. What is the part of the experiment that you test or change? Go to computer lab 1 for your next clue | independent variable | 3. What is the part of the experiment that you observe or measure? Go to the 7th grade water fountain for your next clue | Dependent variable | 4. What do you call conclusions based on observations & prior knowledge? Go to 6th grade hall entrance for next clue | Inference | 5. What type of observations involve numbers or measurments? Find your next clue inside locker # 254 combination 48-14-04 | Quantitative | 6. Which variable is located along the y axis of a graph? Find your next clue at 7th grade workroom | dependent | 7. What do you call the process used to answer questions about the world around us? Find your next clue at gym lobby concession stand | Scientific method | 8. What type of observations involve characteristics such as color & size? Your next clue is in room 705 under the chair at seat 13 | Qualitative | 9. What variable is located along the x axis of a graph? Go to the trophy case for your next clue | independent | 10. What is an educated guess about the results of an experiment called? Go to Flat Rocks main entrance outside front office for your next clue | hypothesis | 11. What are the factors in an experiment that do NOT change? Go look outside Ms. Maddox’s for your next clue | Controls | 12. The bodies ability to maintain stable internal body conditions is called what? Look near the microwave for your next clue | homeostasis | 13. What is one characteristic of living things? Return to room 705 & turn in your answers | made of cells |
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