QR Challenge: ECO 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. transmission of messages and files using a computer network	Electronic Mail (e-mail)
2. a document generated by using a facsimile machine	Fax
3. a vast network of computers linked to one another	Internet
4. a company's private network of computers	Intranet
5. a computer network that covers a small area	Local Area Network (LAN)
6. computers that are connected to each other	Network
7. computers that are connected and ready to receive and/or transmit data	Online
8. the rules that must be observed for two electronic devices to communicate with each other	Protocol
9. a computer that is not connected to a network	Stand alone
10. transmitting information and communicating electronically	Telecommunications
11. Internet address that identifies hypertext documents	Uniform Resource Locator ( URL)
12. a system of computers that share information by means of links on web pages	World Wide Web (WWW)

 

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