QR Challenge: Chapter 1 - 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. Using one or more of your senses to gather information is called what?	Observing
2. Observation that deals with descriptions that are expressed in numbers are called what?	Quantitative observation
3. Observation that deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers	Qualitative observation
4. To explain or interpret the things you observe is called what?	Inferring
5. What is called when you are trying to find out what will happen in the future?	Predicting
6. What is the grouping together of items that are alike in some ways?	Classifying
7. Creating representations of complex objects or processes is called what?	Making models
8. What is a way to study the world and propose explanations for observations you've made?	Scientific inquiry
9. A possible answer to a scientific question is called a what?	Hypothesis
10. What are the factors in an experiment?	Variables
11. What I, as the scientist, change is called what?	Independent variable
12. What changes as a result of changing something in the experiment?	Dependent variable
13. What kind of experiment has only one variable changed at a time?	Controlled experiment
14. What are the facts and figures gathered during an experiment?	Data
15. Widely accepted explanation based on experimental results is called what?	Scientific theory
16. What describes patterns in nature without explaining them?	Scientific law

 

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