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. What is China's best resource? | Humans 1.3 billion people | 2. Describe the climate of East Asia? | similar to and different from that of Europe and the United States. It is similar in that it is a temperate climate, with colder winters and warm summers. It is different in that most of the rainfall occurs during the warm summer months, rather than during the winter months. | 3. Disasters are common, why? | Typhoons-known as hurricanes in the U.S. and along the Ring of Fire | 4. Why is the Ring of Fire dangerous? | It is a ring of tectonic activity in the Pacific Ocean, causes volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsuanmis | 5. China is the upcoming economic powerhouse. | They have so many people and can provide an endless amount of workers for companies, usually at a lower cost than Americans | 6. Mongolia | very rural, a lot of nomads (people with no permanent home) live there | 7. Industrialization is a problem for China and Japan. | both countries industrialized so quickly that they didn't worry about the greenhouse gases they were putting into the air. | 8. Japan has been criticized for their _________ hunting practices. They say they are only for ____________ research but are mostly used as very expensive food. | whale, scientific |
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