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. How do igneous rocks form? | When molten rock cools | 2. Where are the oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon? | At the bottom | 3. What do we call a rock that contains metals? | Ore | 4. Out of the following rocks: Pumice,Lead,Obsidian,Granite, which can float on water? | Pumice | 5. What types of rocks are formed when bits of rocks are squashed into layers? | Sedimentary | 6. What word describes tiny pieces of rocks that have been worn by erosion? | Sediment | 7. Rocks that were originally either sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic and have been changed further by heat and pressure are called? | Metamorphic | 8. Weathering and erosion will form? | Sediment | 9. You find a fossil of the Mesosaurus. What rock type must it be? | Sedimentary | 10. Which is not an example of erosion: wind, fire, water, ice? | Fire | 11. Which type of igneous rocks has large, visible crystals? | Intrusive | 12. The steps: erosion, Deposition, compaction, cementation, are for the formation of which type of rock? | Sedimentary | 13. What are the three types of weathering? | Physical, Chemical and Biological | 14. What layer of the earth acts 'plastically'? | Asthenosphere | 15. What minerals make up granite? | Feldspar, mica and quartz | 16. Plant roots growing into rocks, animals and humans are examples of what type of weathering? | Biological | 17. What would you observe about sediments as they move further away from the rock source? | Smaller, rounder and sorted by size | 18. Weathering is the... | Breakdown of rock into smaller pieces | 19. What do igneous rocks have that sedimentary rocks do not? | Interlocking crystals | 20. Fossils are found in which type of rock, and why? | Sedimentary. Get preserved in the layers of rock | 21. Which of the following is an example of an intrusive igneous rock:pumice, basalt, diorite, obsidian? | Diorite | 22. What major mineral is mined in Western Australia? | Gold | 23. What are the three mining methods? | Open cut, dredging and underground |
How do igneous rocks form?&choe=UTF-8
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Where are the oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon?&choe=UTF-8
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What do we call a rock that contains metals?&choe=UTF-8
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Out of the following rocks: Pumice,Lead,Obsidian,Granite, which can float on water?&choe=UTF-8
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What types of rocks are formed when bits of rocks are squashed into layers?&choe=UTF-8
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What word describes tiny pieces of rocks that have been worn by erosion?&choe=UTF-8
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Rocks that were originally either sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic and have been changed further by heat and pressure are called?&choe=UTF-8
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Weathering and erosion will form?&choe=UTF-8
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You find a fossil of the Mesosaurus. What rock type must it be?&choe=UTF-8
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Which is not an example of erosion: wind, fire, water, ice?&choe=UTF-8
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Which type of igneous rocks has large, visible crystals?&choe=UTF-8
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The steps: erosion, Deposition, compaction, cementation, are for the formation of which type of rock?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the three types of weathering?&choe=UTF-8
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What layer of the earth acts 'plastically'?&choe=UTF-8
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What minerals make up granite?&choe=UTF-8
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Plant roots growing into rocks, animals and humans are examples of what type of weathering?&choe=UTF-8
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What would you observe about sediments as they move further away from the rock source?&choe=UTF-8
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Weathering is the...&choe=UTF-8
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What do igneous rocks have that sedimentary rocks do not?&choe=UTF-8
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Fossils are found in which type of rock, and why?&choe=UTF-8
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Which of the following is an example of an intrusive igneous rock:pumice, basalt, diorite, obsidian?&choe=UTF-8
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What major mineral is mined in Western Australia?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the three mining methods?&choe=UTF-8
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