QR Challenge: Human Evolution and Hunter-Gatherer Society

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. What ability was the Australopithecus the first hominid to do?	Walk upright
2. What ability was Homo Habilis first to develop?	Make tools
3. What skill was Homo Erectus first to develop?	Control fire
4. What development allowed the Homo Erectus to begin talking?	They began losing body heat through their skin
5. What skill was Homo Sapiens the first to develop?	See in color
6. What best explains why Hunter-Gatherers were always moving?	Plants would become ripe at different times
7. What was a common technique for hunting large herds of animals?	Using fire to scare them off the edges of cliffs
8. What earlier human species was wiped out by Homo Sapiens?	Neanderthal
9. Where was the Neanderthal fossil first found?	Neander Valley
10. Who discovered the first Homo Habilis fossil?	Louis and Mary Leakey

 

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