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.
Question | Answer |
1. In order to have an eclipse, the Earth, Sun, & Moon have to be______ | in alignment | 2. A lunar eclipse can only occur during this moon phase. | Full Moon | 3. A solar eclipse can only occur during this moon phase. | New Moon | 4. How many high tides and low tides usually occur within 24 hours? | 2 high tides and 2 low tides | 5. Which celestial body has the greatest influence on Earth's tides? | the Moon | 6. Why does the moon's gravity affect the tides more than the sun's gravity? | the moon is closer | 7. The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another | eclipse | 8. A solar eclipse occurs during the day or at night? | day | 9. A lunar eclipse occurs during the day or at night? | night | 10. Daily changes in the level of ocean water | Tides | 11. Which type of eclipse occurs when the Moon comes directly between Earth and the Sun? | Solar Eclipse | 12. Which type of eclipse occurs when the Earth comes directly between the Sun and Moon? | Lunar Eclipse | 13. Tides are caused mainly by what? | Moon's gravitational pull | 14. Why does an eclipse NOT occur at every new moon? | The moon's orbital plane is tilted 5ยบ | 15. Why does the moon appear reddish brown during a total lunar eclipse? | Light from the Sun is bent by air particles in Earth's atmosphere, allowing only certain wavelengths to pass through | 16. What tide does this image represent? | Spring Tide | 17. What tide does this image represent? | Neap Tide | 18. Which eclipse does this image represent? | Lunar Eclipse | 19. Which eclipse does this image represent? | Solar Eclipse | 20. Which phases of the moon are Neap Tides? | First and Third Quarter Moons | 21. Which phases of the moon are Spring Tides? | New and Full Moons |
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