QR Challenge: Indonesian Rainforests

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. Because of the frigid temperature of northern Asia, rainforests grow mainly in the south, such as India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and so on. I will be talking about the forests in Indonesia because of all the diversity on their multiple islands.	answer
2. The climate in Indonesia stabilizes all year round because of its close proximity to the equator. In the coldest months of the year, it is generally in the lower 60 degrees. The daily temperature is usually between 50 and 77 degrees. Humidity is always present, so it will often feel hotter than it truly is. The average annual rainfall is 79 inches. To put that into prospective, Houston gets an average of 54 inches annually.	answer2
3. Plants in the rainforests are as diverse as its climate. The most famous is probably the rafflesia, or one of the largest flowers in the world. The only problem is their atrocious odor. They smell like rotting garbage and aren't very pretty to look at either. Bamboo also grows here. There are multiple species, but the most common is the Bengal Bamboo. There are also various types of trees. Some of the most common are Tualang (inside these trees, bees will make enormous hives up to 6 feet long) and Strangler Figs (these trees start out their life as seeds on another tree, growing on that tree until its roots get long enough to spread to the ground and snake around the tree's trunk, stopping nutrients from reaching its host plant. It is so named the Strangler Fig).	done
4. Some of the native fauna of the rainforests in Indonesia are Bengal Tigers (whose stripes are as different as our fingerprints), Common Palm Civets (AKA Musang, this creature is fed coffee beans because of their unique digestive system. These are ground and 'Civet Excrement Coffee', AKA 'Kopi Luwak', is currently the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for $100 per pound), King Cobras (this is the world's longest venomous snake), Orangutans ('Orangatan' means 'man of the forest' in Malay), Proboscus Monkey (a monkey with an abnormal pink growth on his nose), and Sumatran Rhinocerous (a hairy rhino, also the smallest rhinocerous in the world).	done
5. There are many places where rainforests grow in Indonesia. There are forests covering all of the islands, with space cut into them for cities and towns. The biggest problem in these rainforests is poaching and illegal tree cutting. Every second, a patch of forest the size of a football field is cut down.	done

 

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