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. Which of the following human activities can trigger drought? | Deforestation | 2. What is the geographical term given to a long period of abnormally dry weather which has led to a severe water shortage? | Drought | 3. Where has the most prolonged drought ever in the world recorded history occurred? | In the Atacama Desert in Chile | 4. How many people have died as a consequence of drought since 1900? | More than 11 million people | 5. How many people does the drought threaten today? | More than 1.2 billion people | 6. When did the Australia’s “millennium” drought begin? | In 1995 | 7. Which country imported water by ship? | Spain | 8. How many people globally are affected by droughts every year? | An estimated 55 million |
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