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. 1. How many activities are in the guide and how are they arranged? | 50 alpha order | 2. 2. Find an an activity that addresses your grade level. | Answers will vary | 3. 3. Where are the objectives for each activity found? | light blue section of each activity | 4. 4. What else does that section provide? | levels concepts skills materials time | 5. 5. If you are not familiar with the activity, what section should you read? | background | 6. 6. Locate the activity dealing with the role of carbon in nature. | Ride the Carbon Cycle | 7. 7. This activity can be used to test students technical communication skills. | Hear Hear Engineer | 8. 8. What fun activity that can be used for Family Science Night involves changing glue into a polymer? | Put the Poly in Polymer | 9. 9. If a teacher wants to review energy sources with her class she can use this activity. | Get Energized | 10. 10. If a first grade teacher wants to incorporate careers into her lesson and promote science and math careers, what book should she read to the class? | When I Grow up I want To Be An Engineer | 11. 11. Find the activity that will help determine a student's Sun Protection Factor. | Petrochemicals at the Beach | 12. 12. Name the activity dealing with food chains and webs. | What's for Dinner | 13. 13. Name the activity dealing with metamorphosis. | Monarchs on the Move | 14. 14. While looking in the foreword, I find that the most significant challenge facing humanity. Name it. | solving the world's energy needs |
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