QR Challenge: Pollution

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. 1. What are 2 ways litter gets into the ocean?	storms and trash from the streets
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3. 2. What is air pollution?	visions of smokestacks billowing black clouds into the sky.
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5. 3. what are the 4 forms of air pollution?	burning of fossil fules, energy vehicals and plants
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7. 4. what sea animal can light pollution impact?	turtles
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9. 5. true or false. chemicals realeased into the air contribute to smog and acid rain.	true
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11. 6. what does noise pollution do to whales?	prevents them from feeding and breeding
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13. 7. what happens when water mixes with chemicals on the atomosphere?	mild acidic compouds are formed
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15. 8. what do 1.1 billion lack?	water
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17. 9. what snags and tears at corals?	pieces of plastic
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19. 10. true or false. acid rain weakens forest.	true
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21. 11. what creates a dead zone?	hypoxia
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23. 12. what are the 3 different pollutants of water?	organic, inorganic, radioactive

 

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