QR Challenge: Earth Science

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. How does the role of technology and human intervention help in the control of constructive and destructive processes?	seismological studies, flood control, beach reclamation
2. Identify and find examples of erosion	depends
3. Earth's surface includes solid _____________ and _________________.	landforms and water
4. Describe a mountain	tallest landform
5. Describe a mountain and a flood plain	depends
6. What three things do you use to identify surface features?	location, shape, and elevation
7. Name a surface feature that can be formed by ocean waves.	sea caves
8. What do we call huge deposits of lava with gently sloping sides?	shield cones
9. What are two ways that surface features can result from magma pushing up Earth's crust?	answer on wb pg. 20
10. Create a diagram comparing guyots to submarine canyons.	wb pg 9
11. Name the three parts that make up the continental margin	pg 8
12. Destructive changes on Earth's surface can happen quickly or slowly. Name two of each.	pg 17
13. A river cutting a V-shaped valley is an example of ________.	weathering and erosion
14. How are contour lines and a topographic map related?	pg. 11
15. Give an example of chemical and mechanical weathering.	pg.13

 

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