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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Choose two things composting is used for. | To make soil and grow plants. | 2. Defend why you cant put coal in a compost. | It might contain substances harmful toc plants. | 3. Develop when composting first began. | With the first plants on Earth. | 4. Contrast a community and an ecosystem. | Community is the populations in an area while an ecosystem is everything in an area. | 5. Examine the two categories of communities. | Terrestrial and aquatic. | 6. Distinguish the main industry for a temperate rain forest | Logging | 7. What inference can you make if the world increased their reducing and recycling methods | The air wouldn\'t be as polluted | 8. Use your knowledge of reusing to explain what reusing prevents | It prevents wastes from entering a landfill | 9. Write what the tundra is covered in most of the year | Ice | 10. Appraise the importance of a sanitary landfill | It prevents the contamination of land and water |
Choose two things composting is used for.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 10)
Defend why you cant put coal in a compost.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 10)
Develop when composting first began.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 10)
Contrast a community and an ecosystem.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 10)
Examine the two categories of communities.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 10)
Distinguish the main industry for a temperate rain forest&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 10)
What inference can you make if the world increased their reducing and recycling methods&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 10)
Use your knowledge of reusing to explain what reusing prevents&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 10)
Write what the tundra is covered in most of the year&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 10)
Appraise the importance of a sanitary landfill&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 10)
