QR Challenge: Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

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. What was the first English colony in North America?	Roanoke
2. What was the first successful English colony in North America?	Jamestown
3. If the quotient is 7 and the divisor is 8 what is the dividend?	56
4. What type of figurative language is the following sentence: My cat weighs a ton.	Hyperbole
5. 6 X 1/4 =	6/4 = 1 1/2
6. All of the following are examples of_________________. Wowza! Kerplunk! Splat!	Onomatopoeia
7. If one factor is 8 and the other factor is 9, what is the product?	72
8. What river flows through the Grand Canyon?	Colorado River
9. A mass of sediment in the form of a triangle found at the end of a river is called a _______________.	delta
10. Who was the first English baby born in North America?	Virginia Dare
11. When conducting an experiment it is important to change ONLY one ___________.	variable
12. When exploring the Americas, the Spanish wanted _________ and the French wanted _______________.	gold, fur
13. Name a prime number, how do you know it is a prime number?	2,3,5,7,11,13,17 etc. It has only 2 factors: 1 and itself.
14. What is the name of the land bridge nomads crossed to get from what is now Asia to North America?	Beringia
15. If the diameter of a circle is 10 inches, what is the radius of the circle?	5 inches

 

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