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. What type of grid system uses blue lines on the topographic map? | UTM | 2. Type of map which distorts the North and South | Mercator | 3. How many cm are in one km | 100000 | 4. Map projection which elongates the tropic area | Peters | 5. Type of grid system which uses letters and numbers | alphanumeric | 6. The number of degrees that East is | ninety | 7. Capital city of British Columbia | Victoria | 8. Time zones that Ontario is in | Eastern | 9. If it is 3:00 in Bracebridge, what time is it in Churchill, Manitoba | two o\'clock | 10. How many time zones are there in Canada? | six |
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