QR Challenge: Landforms

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. Latitude	Distance in degrees either north or south of the equator
2. Contour lines2	Lines of equal elevation that show the shapes of landforms2
3. Equator3	Imaginary line circling the Earth at zero degrees latitude3
4. Elevation4	The height above or below sea level4
5. Plateau5	Raised area of flat land5
6. Plain6	Large, low areas of mostly flat land6
7. Mountain7	High, steep landform7
8. Latitude8	Lines that run east/west and measure degrees north/south8
9. Elevation ________what crops can be grown9	Affects9
10. Steep land10	Contour lines are close together10
11. Flatter land11	Contour lines are farther apart11
12. Contour lines connect areas of equal12	Elevation12
13. Gulf Coastal Plain13	Lowland area surrounding Gulf of Mexico13
14. Area between Appalachian and Rocky Mountains14	Interior Plains14
15. Topographic map15	Map that shows elevation15
16. Interval16	Change in elevation between contour lines16
17. Plains make up about___________% of the United States17	5017
18. On a topographic map, plains have contour lines that are closer or farther apart18	farther apart18

 

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