QR Challenge: Global Issues Scavenger Hunt

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. With around 68 percent of all people living with HIV residing in sub-Saharan Africa, the region carries the greatest burden of the epidemic	AIDS1
2. 2. A common cause of the spread of HIV is through husband to wife; men often work for months away from home, patronize prostitutes while away, and pass HIV to their wives when they return home	AIDS2
3. 3. Poor medical care, inadequate nutrition, and cultural resistance to sex education complicate efforts to deal with this epidemic	AIDS3
4. 4. The Republic of South Africa, one of the most developed countries on the continent of Africa, has the largest number of people with HIV/AIDS	AIDS4
5. 5. In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has erased decades of progress made in extending life expectancy. Average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is now 54.4 years and in some of the most heavily affected countries in the region life expectancy is below 49 years	AIDS5
6. 6. The social and economic consequences of the AIDS epidemic are widely felt in the health sector but also in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and the economy in general	AIDS6
7. 7. The effect of the AIDS epidemic on households can be very severe, especially when families lose their income earners. In other cases, people have to provide home based care for sick relatives, reducing their capacity to earn money for their family. Many of those dying from AIDS have surviving partners who are themselves infected and in need of care. They leave behind orphans, who are often cared for by members of the extended family	AIDS7
8. 8. The HIV and AIDS epidemic has dramatically affected labor, which in turn slows down economic activity and social progress. The vast majority of people living with HIV and AIDS in Africa are between the ages of 15 and 49 - in the prime of their working lives	AIDS8
9. 9. Investing in HIV/AIDS education is one of the most significant steps that can be taken to reduce the spread of this disease, especially investing in female education	AIDS9
10. 1. Desertification is the degradation of arid or semi-arid land	DES1
11. 2. Over 250 million people are directly affected by desertification	DES2
12. 3. About 1 billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk including many of the world\'s poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens	DES3
13. 4. Desertification, like that in Chad, is caused largely by over-farming, overgrazing, deforestation and bad irrigation practices	DES4
14. 5. The Sahel is a semi-arid region on the southern border of the Sahara desert that is turning into arid desert for the reasons listed in 4	DES5
15. 6. Africa is the worst affected continent; with two-thirds of its land either desert or drylands. Almost a third of land in the U.S. is affected by desertification; and one quarter of Latin America and the Caribbean, and one fifth of Spain	DES6
16. 7. The areas affected find it virtually impossible to raise food to feed its people resulting in migration to other areas, putting more of a burden on those areas	DES7
17. 8. Education of farmers and herders in order to improve land management practices is one strategy in combating the causes of desertification	DES8
18. 9. The Green Belt Movement in which bands of trees are planted to try to hold down valuable topsoil and fight erosion has had mixed results	DES9
19. 10. Deforestation and desertification contribute to the albedo effect in which the sun\'s rays, instead of being absorbed by the ground such as tree cover, reflect back into the atmosphere, contributing to Global warming	DES10
20. 1. Deforestation is clearing Earth\'s forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land	DEF1
21. 2. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year	DEF2
22. 3. The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture where farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock	DEF3
23. 4. Logging operations, which provide the world’s wood and paper products, also cut countless trees each year. Loggers, some of them acting illegally, also build roads to access more and more remote forests—which leads to further deforestation	DEF4
24. 5. Some is caused by a combination of human and natural factors like wildfires and subsequent overgrazing, which may prevent the growth of young trees	DEF5
25. 6. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes	DEF6
26. 7. Deforestation also drives climate change. Forest soils are moist, but without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out. Trees also help perpetuate the water cycle by returning water vapor back into the atmosphere. Without trees to fill these roles, many former forest lands can quickly become barren deserts	DEF7
27. 8. Trees also play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming	DEF8
28. 9. In their drive to modernize in the 20th century, nations like Brazil have allowed mass deforestation to occur, even though it has slowed down in recent years	DEF9
29. 10. Responsible cutting with new tree plantations is a possible compromise in this drive to modernize	DEF10
30. 1. Preventing the shipment of narcotics from Latin America labs to North American criminal distributors has been a major goal of the United States in recent decades	NAR1
31. 2. One of the world\'s largest suppliers of illegal narcotics, Colombia leads the world in production of cocaine	NAR2
32. 3. Under colonial rule, the Spanish encouraged the production of cash crops in Colombia, primarily coffee	NAR3
33. 4. After Colombia won its independence in the 19th century, Colombia\'s economy was still restricted by this reliance on one or two cash crops which makes the country very vulnerable to world market and weather conditions	NAR4
34. 5. The growth of the Medellin and Cali drug cartels in the late 20th century led to an increase in farmers being given coca to grow instead of coffee	NAR5
35. 6. These drug cartels invested in their own private armies, airplanes, ships, labs, and processing plants	NAR6
36. 7. The term narcoterrorism arose to describe the campaigns of violence used by the drug cartels against government and civilian targets; resulting in the murders of hundreds of political and military officials	NAR7
37. 8. Colombia has been further disturbed by warfare waged by left-wing guerrilla groups since the 1960s - one of the most famous being FARC	NAR8
38. 9. These guerrilla groups and the paramilitary groups that fight against them are financed by the drug trade	NAR9
39. 10. In the 21st century alone, the US government has invested over $5 billion in aid to combat the drug trade with military measures such as training Colombian soldiers and providing combat helicopters	NAR10
40. 1. The African country of Sudan is deeply split between its Muslim Arab North, which runs the government, and its black African South which is primarily Christian and animist	EC1
41. 2. Civil war broke out in the 1980s based on the government\'s decision to impose Islamic law on the civil courts throughout the country	EC2
42. 3. Economic problems within the country were compounded by a devastating drought that created famine both in the late 1980s and the late 1990s	EC3
43. 4. By the start of the 21st century, civil war and famine had killed about 2 million Sudanese people and created millions more displaced people	EC4
44. 5. In 2003, rebels from the Darfur region and the government of Sudan began fighting over Darfur\'s desire to have its fair share of government\'s resources and rights	EC5
45. 6. The Arab-led government responded by sponsoring the Janjaweed, Arab militias, in attacking villages in Darfur by horseback, burning the villages, raping the women and killing most of the inhabitants	EC6
46. 7. In 2003, the United Nations and the United States both called the situation in Darfur, Sudan a genocide, creating hope that the international community would intervene to stop it based on the UN Convention on Genocide	EC7
47. 8. However, actual military action was never taken. China, a member of the UN Security Council, is heavily involved in running the oil pipelines that run through Sudan	EC8
48. 9. South Sudan, primarily Christian and animist and the source of the majority of the oil in Sudan, voted in a referendum in 2010-2011 to break away from the North. They were successful under the watchful eye of the UN	EC9
49. 10. Uncertainty still remains in dealing with the oil possession in the two Sudans and the refugee crisis which continues	EC10

 

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