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. Find each QR code in the building or classroom over the next 3 days, working in groups of 2-3. Collect all the clues and questions by next Monday. If you find a QR that is just a name, please find out what this persons impact on technology and design. We will review what you collected and begin to work on our first project. | 2. What type of drafter created this http://www.goldengatebridge.org/? | 3. What type of drafter created this http://www.wtc.com/ ? | 4. What is the difference between formal and informal education? | 5. Name the different types of people that make up an engineering teams. | 6. How are new design ideas initiated? | 7. What three qualities must a design have? | 8. When can a one-view sketch be used to describe an object? | 9. What type of drafting related degree did Alfred Hitchcock have? | 10. What type of drafting related degree did Bill Nye have? | 11. Describe the impact Hedy Lamarr had/has on technology and design | 12. Describe the impact Thomas Edison had/has on technology and design | 13. Describe the impact Leonardo Da Vinci had/has on technology and design | 14. What type of drafting related degree did Yasser Arafat have? | 15. What type of drafting related degree did Rowan Atkinson have? | 16. Describe the impact Alexander Graham Bell had/has on technology | 17. Describe the impact Henry Ford had/has on technology | 18. What caused Tacoma Washington Bridge Disaster? | 19. What caused Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion? | 20. What caused Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway Collapse? | 21. What caused Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster? | 22. What caused Fukushima Reactor Meltdown? | 23. What was the main failure of New Orleans Levee System when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans? | 24. What keeps happening to the Metrodome? | 25. What happened at St. Francis Dam ? | 26. What is/was the flaw with the DC-10? | 27. The are 3 main aspects of design? | 28. What is the ratio of a rectangle whose sides are 4.5" and 8.0"? |
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