QR Challenge: Nature Scavenger Hunt

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. Find something fuzzy and take a group selfie with it.	go to the class garden
2. Take a picture in iNaturalist of a primary consumer.	hint: look up
3. Make an observation in iNaturalist of a secondary consumer	Go to the fence around the school
4. Take a regular photo of something straight	Go to the pavilion
5. Find pieces of man-made litter	Look around your area
6. Locate and record something round	Go to the library but don't go inside
7. Find something smooth	Go to the garden
8. Find two different kinds of leaves, even if they are on a plant	Go to the bungalows
9. Photograph something that makes noise	Find the steps
10. Find and record something you think is beautiful	meet the class by te North building steps

 

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