QR Challenge: Apollo 50th Moon Landing Scavenger Hunt

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. You are on the first space shuttle mission on a different planet. The engineers on your team have completed great work, but as they begin to transmit information to you the radio starts to cut out. The first number you receive is 102. It's up to you now. Find and solve all of the clues to save yourself and your planet by making it to the moon safely.	room 102
2. You've navigated to the control room of the spaceship. From here you have a better signal. You manage to hear, "Assuming you each breath 0.5 L air/breath and that you average 12 breaths/minute, you’ll need about -static- for a one hour spacewalk. If there are three of you in the shuttle, use the first three digits to find the air you need for this portion of the mission	1080
3. Your fellow astronaut floated into the control panel and hit their lower leg. What bones were impacted? A.Tibia and fibula (113) B.Carpals(241) C.Ulna and Radius(246) D. Femur and humerus(103)	A
4. The control panel is also damaged now. The astronaut who weighs 80 kg, floated into it with a force of 10 N. What was the acceleration that caused the damage?	0.125
5. What is the name of the space mission that first landed on the moon? A. Even number(110). B. Odd number (240)	Apollo 11
6. To find your next destination take the year of the moon landing and divide by the number of astronauts on the first mission and round down to the nearest whole number. Then take that answer and divide by 3; round this number up to the nearest whole number.	219
7. What does NASA stand for? Take the number of letters in each work and add 170.	National (8) Aeronautics (11) &(1) Space (5) Administration (14) = 209
8. How many astronauts have walked on the moon in total? add 95 to that number.	107
9. Take the time that the first moon landing occurred at and divide by 4.	233
10. How long did Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong spend of the lunar surface in hours?	21.5 hrs.
11. You have made it to the moon, but your mission is not over yet. Know you need to run a set of experiments; the first one is to determine which hits hte surface of the moon first, a kilogram of rocks or a kilogram of feathers. A. Rocks(108) B. Feathers (Stariwell A) C.Same time(232)	same

 

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