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.
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| 1. What are the main patterns of settlement? | Dispersed, nucleated, linear, Cruciform. | 2. Draw a model settlement hierarchy. | From the bottom to the top: Isolated home, Hamlet, Village, Town, City, Conurbation, Megalopolis (Top, Capital City can be used). | 3. What are the main differences between the Burgess Model and the Hoyt Model? | Burgess model has concentric rings vs the Hoyt model with the sectors. | 4. why these problems occur. | CASE STUDY QUESTION: You could use almost any city, perhaps London, Rio, Cape Town. The problems are largely the same: traffic congestion is likely with built up areas with narrow roads and lots of vehicles trying to get into the centre of the city for work etc. Decline of the CBD due to the cost of development and upkeep, can become untidy due to a lack of coordinated plan for development, investors are attracted to sites outside of the CBD where land costs are cheaper and the environment is nicer, city centres become associated with higher crime rates, are dirty and unsafe and this contributes to a sprial of decline. | 5. How has a named city reversed the decline by providing solutions to some of the problems faced in urban centres? | Shanghai is the case study provided in the text book, but of course, others are accepted providing the correct information is provided. Shanghai has a master plan for the redevelopment of the whole area including the creation of three satellite cities that will reduce congestion and high population densities in central Shanghai. Providing affordable housing enables people to live comfortably in the city areas, there are many plans to improve the treatment of waste to ensure that it is more environmentally friendly than the currently used land fill sites, renewable energy is to be used and food is to be locally sourced; about a third of the land in Shanghai is used for farming and this will continue to be the case, but with the addition of organic fertilisers to increase efficiency. Farm tourism is also being encouraged. |
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