QR Challenge: Solar System Quest

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. ________________is the term that describes the path Earth travels around the sun.	orbit
2. The first outer planet is	Jupiter
3. Name the planet that can sustain life.	Earth
4. _____Is the term that describes the spinning of the Earth on its axis.	rotation
5. ______Is the planet closest to the sun.	Mercury
6. The Earth's ______________ causes seasons.	tilt
7. One _______________________ around the sun is one year.	revolution
8. What are the outer planets called?	Gas Giants
9. What are the inner planets called?	Solid Surface Planets
10. What separates the inner and outer planets?	Asteroid Belt
11. What phase of the moon must it be to have a lunar eclipse?	full moon
12. When the moon blocks the sun from the earth it is called a	solar eclipse
13. How many hours in one full rotation of the earth?	24 hours
14. How many days in a lunar cycle?	28 days
15. How many days does it take the earth to orbit the sun?	365 1/4 days

 

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