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. -Why does the moon always have the same side facing Earth, look at site, http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Moononeside.shtml | Because it rotates around its own axis in the same length of time it takes to orbit earth | 2. -What makes Mars Red, see site, http://starryskies.com/articles/2004/01/mars.red.html | The iron oxides on the planet | 3. -What is the difference between a geocentric model of the solar system and a heliocentric model, and when did the current one become the main paradigm, see link, http://www.universetoday.com/36487/difference-between-geocentric-and-heliocentric/ | Heliocentric model, planets orbit the sun, whereas geocentric, planets orbit the Earth, around the 16th century | 4. -When we see stars, what are we actually seeing, see video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ4M7tyLRE | how those stars looked in the past | 5. -All the Planets and Satellites in our Solar System obey Newtons law of Universal Gravitation which explains, see link, http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/u6l3c.cfm | Orbits and elliptical | 6. -Who first proposed the first model of the heliocentric model, see link,http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/heliocentric.html | Copernicus | 7. -Why don't satellites need any fuel, see link, http://science.howstuffworks.com/question378.htm | Because they move in orbit around the Earth | 8. -What kind of Telescope does not use visible light to collect information, see link,http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys230/lectures/nonoptical/nonoptical.html | Radio | 9. -What year, and which country was the first to launch an artificial satellite into space, see link,http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/satellites.html | 1957, Russia | 10. -Which planet has a size that is very close to earth?, see video link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1LO6nOUdw | Venus | 11. -What is one big characteristic about the Hubble Telescope that makes it different than other telescopes?, see link, http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level1/hubble.html | It orbits Earth from Space | 12. -When was the last time a person walked on the Moon?, see link, http://www.universetoday.com/55512/how-many-people-have-walked-on-the-moon/ | 1972 | 13. - The Electromagnetic Spectrum can be expressed in what 2 terms?, see link, http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html | Wavelength and frequency | 14. -Why are Radio Telescopes much larger than Optical Telescopes? see link, http://www.astronomynotes.com/telescop/s4.htm | Radio wavelengths are much longer than visible light | 15. -What is the unit of Measurement that is used for distance between stars?, see link, http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/how-do-we-measure-the-distance-between-stars | Light Years |
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