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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
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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| 1. Minerals are solid, nonliving, formed in nature, and have properties that can help them be identified. | 2. Hardness:This property refers to how easily a mineral can be scratched or scratch something else. | 3. Color: This property can’t be used alone to identify minerals, because many minerals have it in common. | 4. Luster:This describes how light reflects off of a mineral. Examples: pearly, glassy, dull, shiny | 5. There are 3 special properties that can help identify minerals. a.Splits into thin sheets, b.Bubbles or fizzes when put in acid, c.Magnetism | 6. Which mineral is shiny and splits into thin sheets? Mica | 7. Which mineral can scratch glass and is pink or white? Feldspar | 8. What three minerals can calcite scratch? Mica,Talc, Gypsum | 9. Which mineral has a black/gray color? Mica |
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