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. You pick up a can of soda off of the countertop. The countertop underneath the can feels colder than the rest of the counter. Which explanation do you think is the best? a. The cold has been transferred from the soda to the counter. b. There is no heat energy left in the counter beneath the can. c. Some heat has been transferred from the counter to the soda. d. The heat beneath the can moves away into other parts of the countertop. | c. Some heat has been transferred from the counter to the soda. | 2. After cooking an egg in boiling water, you cool the egg by putting it into a bowl of cold water. Which of the following explains the egg’s cooling process? a. Temperature is transferred from the egg to the water.b. Cold moves from the water into the egg.c. Energy is transferred from the water to the egg.d. Energy is transferred from the egg to the water. | a. Temperature is transferred from the egg to the water. | 3. As water in a freezer turns into ice, a. the water absorbs energy from the air in the freezer.b. the water absorbs the coldness from the air in the freezer. c. the freezer air absorbs heat from the water. d. the water neither absorbs nor releases energy | c. the freezer air absorbs heat from the water. | 4. The temperature of a substance increases as A.the substance contracts.B.the substance’s volume decreases.C.the average kinetic energy of its particles increases.D. the substance’s mass increases. | C.the average kinetic energy of its particles increases. | 5. An aluminum plate and a plastic plate have been in the freezer all night long. When you remove them the next morning,a. The plates have the same temperature.b. The plastic plate has a higher temperature.c. The plastic plate has a lower temperature. d. The aluminum plate has a lower temperature. | a. The plates have the same temperature. | 6. The theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion stops or there is no more kinetic energy to transfer is called:A. Zero degrees Celsius B.Absolute Zero C.the freezing point D.the boiling point | A. Zero degrees | 7. If the particles of two substances have the same average kinetic energy, then A. the substances are identical. B. the particles will not react chemically.C. the substances are equal amounts.D. the substances have equal temperatures. | D. the substances have equal temperatures. |
You pick up a can of soda off of the countertop. The countertop underneath the can feels colder than the rest of the counter. Which explanation do you think is the best? a. The cold has been transferred from the soda to the counter. b. There is no heat energy left in the counter beneath the can. c. Some heat has been transferred from the counter to the soda. d. The heat beneath the can moves away into other parts of the countertop.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 7)
After cooking an egg in boiling water, you cool the egg by putting it into a bowl of cold water. Which of the following explains the egg’s cooling process? a. Temperature is transferred from the egg to the water.b. Cold moves from the water into the egg.c. Energy is transferred from the water to the egg.d. Energy is transferred from the egg to the water.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 7)
As water in a freezer turns into ice, a. the water absorbs energy from the air in the freezer.b. the water absorbs the coldness from the air in the freezer. c. the freezer air absorbs heat from the water. d. the water neither absorbs nor releases energy&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 7)
The temperature of a substance increases as A.the substance contracts.B.the substance’s volume decreases.C.the average kinetic energy of its particles increases.D. the substance’s mass increases.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 7)
An aluminum plate and a plastic plate have been in the freezer all night long. When you remove them the next morning,a. The plates have the same temperature.b. The plastic plate has a higher temperature.c. The plastic plate has a lower temperature. d. The aluminum plate has a lower temperature.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 7)
The theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion stops or there is no more kinetic energy to transfer is called:A. Zero degrees Celsius B.Absolute Zero C.the freezing point D.the boiling point&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 7)
If the particles of two substances have the same average kinetic energy, then A. the substances are identical. B. the particles will not react chemically.C. the substances are equal amounts.D. the substances have equal temperatures.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 7)
