QR Challenge: Know your Vocabulary!

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
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2. Government set up in 1861 set up by seven slave states, mostly made up of Southern states. The ________and the union fought in the Civil war	Confederate States of America
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4. The movement by people from one place to another with the intention of settling in the new location. During the ________of the Indians, many of them died on the Trail of Tears. This word can also describe why birds fly south in the winter	Migration
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6. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another. Some are legal, and others are illegal. In order for an ________to live in the United States, they must have a Green Card.	Immigrant
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8. The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled to, The right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. It is our ___________to have freedom.	Human rights
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10. The village was destroyed by a __________. A rotating column of air whirling at destructively high speeds. Usually, accompanied by a funnel-shaped downward extension of a cumulonimbus cloud.	Tornado
11. This occurs among members of a family usually by heredity. Blue eyes and dark hair are ____________ that come from my mother. Some are dominant and others are recessive.	Inherited traits
12. The energy possessed by a system or object as a result of its motion. The cars of a roller coaster reach their maximum __________when at the bottom of their path. Antonym: potential energy	Kinetic energy
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15. An organism that lives on or within a plant or animal of another species, from which it obtains nutrients. Antonym-host, Examples: lice, fleas and leech	Parasite
16. The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units. It is a homograph and Can also mean “loudness.” The I need to know the height, depth and width of the cube so that I can determine the _________.	Volume
17. Tthe answer to a problem or a difficult situation. There is no easy ______________ to this problem. This is a homograph and can also mean a liquid mixture.	Solution
18. In the equation 3x-4=11; x is the ________. The math definition- alphabetic character representing a number which is either arbitrary or not fully specified or unknown. In science they are dependent and independent	Variable
19. A natural phenomenon in which all physical bodies attract each other. It gives objects weight and causes them to fall. When you jump up, ________ pulls you down.	Gravity
20. The total area of the object's faces and curved surfaces. The _________of a cube can be found with the formula 6s2.	Surface area
21. I love to lay in the grass and look at a ______________ in the sky. Patterns that are formed by prominent stars. Examples: “the Big Dipper”, “orion’s belt” and “Emu in the sky."	Constellation

 

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