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. Clue: You will find this question in the spot where your day in algebra begins... | bookshelf | 2. The steps of a magic number puzzle are: pick a starting number, square the number, and then subtract 2. (Find the ending numbers for the starting numbers 1-5) | 3. Clue: To the window, to the wall... your next question lies near the objectives for the day. | learning targets. | 4. What is the relationship between a+b and b+a? | same quantity | 5. What is the relationship between a-b and b-a? | different values | 6. Clue: Sometimes I'm yellow and sometimes I'm white. I am smarter than others but need collaborating at times. | SmartBoard | 7. Clue: This question is held by the one who used to work for the mouse. | Ms. Joy | 8. What is the 6th term in this sequence? 4, -8, 16, -32 | -128 | 9. What is the perimeter of a rectangle with the longest side length equal to 2x+6 and the shortest side length equal to 3x? | 10x+12 | 10. Using "n" to represent "a number", write an algebraic statement for the following statement, 3 less than 4 times a number. | 4n-3 | 11. Evaluate the following expression, x+2z, when x=5, y=8, and z=-4. | -3 | 12. You stopped at 7 Eleven on your way to basketball practice for a Slurpee. If s represents the number of Slurpees you bought and c represents the cost of one Slurpee, then what does the expression s times c represent? | The total amount of money you paid at 7 Eleven for your Slurpees. | 13. The ____________ takes information away from the cell body. | Axon | 14. The_____________ is a specialized cell in the brain that transmits information. | Neuron | 15. The _________________ brings information to the cell body. | Dendrites | 16. Information from one neuron flows to another neuron across a ___________. | Synapse | 17. BONUS QUESTION (Worth 5 extra points!) A high school basketball court is 84 ft long by 50 ft wide. A college basketball court is 10 ft longer than a high school court but has the same width. Write and expression using parentheses for the area of a college basketball court. (Extra 2 points if you simplify your expression you created to find the area of a college basketball court.) | (84+10)50 = 4700 |
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