QR Challenge: Learning About the SOLAR SYSTEM

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. The sun is 93 million miles away from Earth.
2. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
3. Venus
4. Only 1 star in our solar system (the sun). Our Galaxy has millions of stars though.
5. Earth is the only planet people have walked on.
6. It drives on the surface of Mars collecting data and pictures to send back.
7. Phobos and Deimos
8. A huge wind storm.
9. Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune
10. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
11. Uranus because it is the farthest away from the sun.
12. 3 times faster than hurricanes here on Earth
13. It is too small to be a real planet.
14. Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris
15. 8 minutes
16. Charon, Nix, and Hydra
17. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
18. 12 astronoauts have walked on the moon. The first was in 1969 and the last was in 1972.

 

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