QR Challenge: Across the Plains

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. The major landform in the Middle West, comprised of low, flat lands.	Interior Plains
2. The eastern part of the Interior Plains.	Central Plains
3. The western part of the Interior Plains.	Great Plains
4. Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes that represent the largest body of freshwater in the world. The other four are part of the Middle West. They are:	Huron, Michigan, Erie, Superior
5. A flat area covered with tall grasses and wildflowers, usually very fertile and excellent for farming.	Prairie
6. The three main crops of the Middle West are:	corn, soybeans, wheat
7. Farm animals raised to help with agriculture such as cattle, pigs, and chicken.	Livestock
8. A crawling tractor is also known as this. The first manufacturing plant for these was set up in Peoria.	Caterpillar

 

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