QR Challenge: Weather vs. Climate

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. Meteorologists are describing this when describing current conditions in the atmosphere	weather
2. Meteorologists make many different measurements to describe this2	weather2
3. Climatologists study this3	climate3
4. Long-term patterns in weather4	climate4
5. A thunderstorm5	weather5
6. A snowstorm6	weather6
7. A global change in temperatures over time7	climate7
8. The average weather conditions in a particular location or region at a particular time of the year8	climate8
9. Measurements of regional weather recorded over 30 years or more9	climate9
10. Can measure the change of temperature from one year to the next10	climate10
11. Can determine habitat and food available11	climate11
12. Today's High pressure system12	weather12
13. I can expect snow in the Northeast in January or for it to be hot and humid in the Southeast in July13	climate13
14. Today we hit a record high of 40 degrees14	weather14
15. In the 10 day forecast it expected to be 72 and sunny at least twice15	weather15

 

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