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QR Challenge: Admirals and Adventurers

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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

3. Print out the QR codes.

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

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. What type of sail makes a ship faster and easier to manoeuvreA lateen sail.
2. How much was one sack of pepper worth in the Middle Ages?2A man's life.
3. The first merchants to bring spices to Europe from Asia were the Arabs. Were the spice routes mainly by land or by sea?3Land
4. Why did so many countries want to find a way by sea to trade spices from Asia?4Spices were very valuable and they wanted to make money.
5. Name at least one famous explorer who helped to find new sea routes to India.5
6. What year did Vasco Da Gama successfully discover the route to India.61498.
7. Name two instruments (tools) the early explorers used to navigate.7Compass, astrolabe
8. The early explorers used what in the sky to work out where they were?8Positions of the sun, moon and stars (starry constellations).
9. On the globe, find the middle line of latitude. What is it called and how many degrees is it?9The Equator which is zero degrees.
10. Around the globe there is a curved "ruler" which measures degrees (of an arc). Estimate how many degrees is the Tropic of Capricorn?1023.5 degrees South.
11. Name a country the Tropic of Capricorn runs through.11
12. Look on the globe and find the Prime Meridian. Is it a line of longitude or latitude?12Longitude.
13. On the globe, find the International Date Line. Why do you think it is crooked?13It is crooked because it helps countries have the same date and time within their country.
14. Name Captain James Cook's ship.14The Endeavour.
15. Who sailed on the Eye of the Wind and the STS Leeuwin II?15Captain Richard Grono

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-type-of-sail-makes-a-ship-faster-and-easier-to-manoeuvre

Question 1 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How-much-was-one-sack-of-pepper-worth-in-the-Middle-Ages?2

Question 2 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-first-merchants-to-bring-spices-to-Europe-from-Asia-were-the-Arabs.-Were-the-spice-routes-mainly-by-land-or-by-sea?3

Question 3 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why-did-so-many-countries-want-to-find-a-way-by-sea-to-trade-spices-from-Asia?4

Question 4 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name-at-least-one-famous-explorer-who-helped-to-find-new-sea-routes-to-India.5

Question 5 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-year-did-Vasco-Da-Gama-successfully-discover-the-route-to-India.6

Question 6 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name-two-instruments-(tools)-the-early-explorers-used-to-navigate.7

Question 7 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-early-explorers-used-what-in-the-sky-to-work-out-where-they-were?8

Question 8 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=On-the-globe,-find-the-middle-line-of-latitude.-What-is-it-called-and-how-many-degrees-is-it?9

Question 9 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Around-the-globe-there-is-a-curved-"ruler"-which-measures-degrees-(of-an-arc).-Estimate-how-many-degrees-is-the-Tropic-of-Capricorn?10

Question 10 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name-a-country-the-Tropic-of-Capricorn-runs-through.11

Question 11 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Look-on-the-globe-and-find-the-Prime-Meridian.-Is-it-a-line-of-longitude-or-latitude?12

Question 12 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=On-the-globe,-find-the-International-Date-Line.-Why-do-you-think-it-is-crooked?13

Question 13 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name-Captain-James-Cook's-ship.14

Question 14 (of 15)

 


Admirals and Adventurers: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who-sailed-on-the-Eye-of-the-Wind-and-the-STS-Leeuwin-II?15

Question 15 (of 15)