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.
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1. 1. Historians | These scientists study the written records of different cultures. | 2. 2. Political Scientists | These scientists study the laws and government of a culture. | 3. 3. Anthropologists | These scientists study the customs of a group of people. | 4. 4. Sociologists | These scientist study how different people within a culture get along with one another. | 5. 5. Archaeologists | These scientists study the written artifacts made and used by ancient civilizations. | 6. 6. Customs | The accepted way of doing things among a group of people. | 7. 7. Culture | A group of people with the same ways of doing things (customs). | 8. 8. Global Interdependence | How different parts of the world depend on one another. | 9. 9. Ethnocentric | Judging another culture according to your own values. | 10. 10. Amazon Rainforest | "The lungs of our planet" because of the oxygen it produces. |
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