QR Challenge: What is Science

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Experiment	The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
2. Observation	Use of one or more of the senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, and sometimes taste—to gather information
3. Physics	The study of matter and energy and the interactions between the two through forces and motion
4. Biology	The science that studies living organisms
5. Chemistry	The study of the composition, structure, and properties of matter and the changes it undergoes
6. Geology	The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth.
7. Astronomy	The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
8. Ecology	The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
9. Conclusion	a summary of the results of the experiment and a statement of how the results relate to the hypothesis
10. Hypothesis	An educated guess
11. Qualitative observation	type of data that is categorized by entries such as the labels (color, names, etc.)
12. Quantitative observation	Relating to the measurement of quantity
13. Inference	a logical explanation given to try and explain an observation
14. Prediction	a statement that suggests what will happen in the future based on observations already made.
15. Scientific report	A report should have
16. Meniscus	The curve at the surface of the liquid in narrow tubes.
17. Parallax error	An error caused by not having your eye directly in line with the measurement
18. Variables	Factors that are measured or controlled in a scientific study
19. Safety Flame	The yellow flame is low heat and easy to see so it is the safe flame
20. Open collar	Gas burns efficiently with excess air. No smoke and very hot showing a blue flame.
21. Botany	A type of biology that studies plants
22. Zoology	A type of biology that studies animals
23. Science	It is the systematic knowledge about the physical world gained through observation and experimentation.
24. Laboratory	are where scientists run most of their experiments and make most of their observations and measurements and discoveries

 

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