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. Oceans, rivers, and seas have helped African countries to participate in __. a. Global trade | c | 2. Why do countries with large rivers still have water issues? a. The water is polluted | c | 3. What two things make life along Africa’s water difficult? a.Not enough of the water and Very polluted | c | 4. Why do government officials ignore the waste that factories are putting into the water sources? a.Because factories bring money to the people | c | 5. What is desertification? a.Desert expanding into land that was once farmland | c | 6. What four things does desertification cause?a.Poor farming practices, People cutting down the trees that help hold the soil in place, Animals being allowed to graze too heavily in an area and stripping all of the vegetation from the soil, Draining the surface & underground water for industrial & home use | c | 7. What area of Africa is suffering the most from desertification? a.Sahel | c | 8. What is deforestation? a.Forest being destroyed due to human development | c | 9. What are three effects of deforestation?a.Number of trees shrinks so does the amount of oxygen, Fewer medicines, Leads to the extinction of species | c | 10. What stretches across North Africa covering 1/3 of the continent, and has very little water? a.Sahara | c | 11. What is a strip of dry grassland with sparse vegetation; it is semi-arid and the land is turning into desert? a.Sahel | c | 12. What is near the Equator, has both dry and rainy seasons, and covered in tall grasses and short trees? a.Savanna | c | 13. What is located along the central coast near the Equator, it has a hot and humid climate and receives plenty of rain? a.Tropical rain-forest | c | 14. What are four reasons that people do not live in the Sahara Desert? a.Hot,No water, No cities, No vegetation | c | 15. What are three reasons that people do not live in the Sahel a.Desertification, Little water, Very little farming and livestock | c | 16. In the savanna most people live near _____. a.Rivers | c | 17. What are two important jobs found in the savanna?a.Mining and Raising livestock | c | 18. What is the main disadvantage of roads being built in the savanna? a.Destroys natural habitat of wildlife | c | 19. What does the tropical rainforest provide for 75 million people? a.Food and water | c | 20. What are three jobs that can be found in the tropical rainforest? a.Agriculture, Mining, Timber industry | c | 21. Where in Africa are the Arabs located? a.Northern Africa | c | 22. What language do the Arabs speak?a.Arabic | c | 23. Most Arabs worship what religion?a.Islam | c | 24. The Ashanti are located in _____ and _____. a.Ghana and Ivory Coast | c | 25. ____ is an important symbol of the Ashanti people.a.Golden Stool | c | 26. The Ashanti religion is a mixture of ____ and ____. a.Supernatural and animist powers | c | 27. What is Animism? a.Belief that plants, animals, and trees have souls | c | 28. What language do the Ashanti speak?a.Asante’ or ‘Twi | c | 29. Bantu means __. a.The people | c | 30. Where are the Bantu located in Africa?a.Throughout central and south Africa | c | 31. The Bantu migration was the ________. a.Largest movement of people in African history | c | 32. What are the three religions that most of the Bantu worship? a.Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religions | c | 33. There are over ____ Bantu languages and dialects. a.650 | c | 34. Swahili means ___. a.One who lives on the coast | c | 35. Where are the Swahili located? a.narrow strip of land along the southern coast of East Africa (in Kenya, Tanzania, & Mozambique) | c | 36. Almost all Swahili worship ____ religion. a.Islam | c | 37. The Swahili speak ____, which is a mixture of _____ and ______. a.Swahili, mixture of Bantu and Arabic | c |
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