QR Challenge: Capital Cities in North America

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. British Columbia	Victoria
2. Alberta	Edmonton
3. Saskatchewan	Regina
4. Manitoba	Winnipeg
5. Ontario	Toronto
6. Quebec	Quebec City
7. New Brunswick	Fredericton
8. Nova Scotia	Halifax
9. Prince Edward Island	Charlottetown
10. Newfoundland and Labrador	St. John's
11. Yukon	Whitehorse
12. Northwest Territories	Yellowknife
13. Nunavut	Iqaluit
14. Arizona	Phoenix
15. California	Sacramento
16. Colorado	Denver
17. Florida	Tallahassee
18. Georgia	Atlanta
19. Hawaii	Honolulu
20. Idaho	Boise
21. Illinois	Springfield
22. Indiana	Indianapolis
23. Maine	Augusta
24. Massachusetts	Boston
25. Nebraska	Lincoln
26. Ohio	Columbus
27. Oklahoma	Oklahoma City
28. Oregon	Salem
29. Rhode Island	Providence
30. South Carolina	Columbia
31. Tennessee	Nashville
32. Texas	Austin
33. Utah	Salt Lake City
34. Virginia	Richmond
35. Washington	Olympia
36. West Virginia	Charleston
37. Pennsylvania	Harrisburg
38. Louisiana	Baton Rouge
39. Maryland	Annapolis
40. Michigan	Lansing
41. Mississippi	Jackson
42. Montana	Helena
43. New Jersey	Trenton
44. New Mexico	Santa Fe
45. Minnesota	Saint Paul

 

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