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. This is used to find the volume of an irregular solid | Overflow Can | 2. Find the Beaker | Beaker | 3. 7th grade football scored 14 points in their football game is a ____________ observation. | Quantitative | 4. Step 0 of the scientific method is to make _____________. | Observations | 5. Data is collected during the ___________ phase of the scientific method. | Experiment | 6. A 'great hypothesis is clear, confident, concrete, testable, and _________ with a because statement. | measureable | 7. The first day of school, the coke can was heated on a __________. | Hot Plate | 8. Find the Test Tube Holder | Test Tube Holder | 9. We tested the water temperature of different types of mints. What was the dependent variable? | Temperature of Water | 10. If you see this Symbol ...... | Biohazard | 11. Used to pick up a specimen and are pointed on the end (You would have used them in disections last year. | Forceps | 12. Find the Test Tube Rack. | Test Tube Rack | 13. If you see this symbol.... | Sharp Objects | 14. The dependent variable will be graphed on the _____ axis. | Y axis | 15. Following an initial problem or question, you should ________ before making a hypothesis. | Research | 16. Labs count _____% of your semester grade. | 30% | 17. Your EST counts as a ______ grade. | Test | 18. You were absent – What should you do first? | Check the Help! I was absent GoogleDoc | 19. During the coke can implosion, water vapor _______ back to one drop of water when the can hit the ice. | condensed | 20. Independent variables are ________. | changed by the scientists | 21. Daily Grades (Learning Checks) count as ____% of my grade. | 15% |
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