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. The earth rotates counterclockwise on its axis. Because of this, in which direction does the moon appear to move across the sky? | from east to west | 2. | 3. List the phases of the moon in order. | new moon, waxing crescent, quarter moon, waxing gibbous, quarter moon, waning crescent | 4. | 5. What causes the seasons? | The tilt of the earth on its axis | 6. | 7. Day and night are caused by ? | tilt of the earth on its axis. | 8. | 9. The moon orbits the earth once in about | 28 days | 10. | 11. the earth rotates around the sun once in about | 365 days |
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