QR Challenge: Arne\'s Big Adventure

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. Starting in eastern Cottage Grove, take MN Hwy 95 north, past Interstate 94 and on the right hand side of the road will be an airport and what is the airport’s name	Lake Elmo
2. 2. The next stop is to get in a small engine plane and fly to a city of the Lake of the Woods with an airstrip and the city’s name is what	Warroad
3. 3. Now hop in a car and take MN Hwy 11 west to MN Hwy 32, turn south on Hwy 32 and take it to the county seat of Pennington County which is called	Thief River Falls
4. 4. Time to hop a train and take it south along US Hwy 59 to Detroit Lakes, but before you get there you will have to pass through which Amerindian Reservation	White Earth
5. 5. Back in the car and continue south through lake country on US Hwy 59 until you reach the birthplace of waterskiing and the largest city of Ottertail County called	Fergus Falls
6. 6. Tough question alert: If I want to take only one highway to Duluth from the largest city in Ottertail County, which highway would I take	MN 210
7. 7. Time to zoom south on Interstate 35, just before reaching the Iowa border, I find a state park to camp at for the night called	Big Island
8. 8. While camping, I got sick and had to be transported east on Interstate 90 to the Mayo clinic, which is located in Olmstead County’s seat and I want to know how many people live in this city	85,806
9. 9. Back to my roots, from Rochester go east on US Hwy 14 until you reach a river town located at 659 ft above sea level with two lovely colleges called St Mary’s and WSU in the beautiful city of	Winona
10. 10. Hop on a boat and motor up the Mississippi River until you get to Slippery’s from “Grumpy Old Men” in the little town right across from Nelson, WI called	Wabasha
11. 11. Now I want to get into the Richard J Dorer Memorial Hardwood forest and head west on MN Hwy 60 through three towns with “Z”’s in their name-what are they	Zumbro Falls, Mazeppa and Zumbrota
12. 12. From the “Z”-town that is furthest west, let’s go north on US Hwy 52 until you get to the community college (look on the metro map on the back) on 80th Street and Hwy 52 called	Inver Hills Community College
13. 13. Let’s have some fun and go west on MN Hwy 55 to Interstate 35E south to MN Hwy 77 south (Cedar Ave) to east Dakota Cty Rd 38 to see some meerkats at the	Minnesota Zoo
14. 14. I just realized we have been driving illegally (Bad Teacher) so now we have to backtrack and go north on MN 77 to Cliff Rd in Eagan and go east and get legal at what location	Drivers License Examining Station
15. 15. From the DLES, let’s go west on Cliff Rd and merge onto MN Hwy 13 and then north on US Hwy 169 and which river will we cross before getting into Bloomington	Minnesota River
16. 16. If we keep driving north on US Hwy 169, we will eventually cross the Mississippi River between Champlin and this city, which is the “Halloween capital of the world”	Anoka
17. 17. All aboard, let’s hop the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail and take it along the river into the biggest city in Minnesota called	Minneapolis
18. 18. Keeping with the rail theme, let’s find the LRT and take it to the International Airport and along the way note that we are following which road	Highway 55/ Hiawatha Avenue
19. 19. I got turned around at the airport and as I am driving away I want to get back to Cottage Grove but should I go west or east on Interstate 494	East
20. 20. Finally, just for fun, I took Military Rd from 494 on my way back to Cottage Grove, but to get close to the ALC I should turn right on which road	Jamaica Rd.

 

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