QR Challenge: Weather Instruments

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 is measured by an anemometer	wind speed in mph
2. What is measured by a barometer2	air pressure in milibars or inches2
3. What is measured by s a hygrometer3	humidity in %3
4. What is measured by a rain gauge4	how much rain in inches or cm or mm4
5. What is measured by a thermometer5	temperature in degrees F or C5
6. What is measured by a wind vane6	wind direction in cardinal directions (NSWE)6
7. What is measured by a radar7	tracks storms or precipitation using a map7
8. What is a front8	Boundry between hot and cold air masses8
9. What is the troposphere9	“sky” area of the atmosphere where the weather takes place
10. What is wind10	Moving air10
11. What are clouds11	Gases, precipitation (water or ice) type in the air11
12. What types of clouds are there12	Cumulus (puffy), stratus (layers, low), cirrus (feathery, wispy, high)12
13. What are types of precipitation13	Rain, snow, sleet, hail, mist13
14. What type of scientist studies weather14	Meteorologist14
15. What is weather15	atmosphere right now at a certain place15

 

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