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. Explain how we see | Light reflects off an object and enters our eyes. Our brain receives messages from the retina, along the optic nerve. | 2. Describe day and night | we get day when our part of the Earth faces the Sun. We get night when our part of the Earth has rotated away from the Sun. | 3. List three ways a shadow can be changed | moving the object closer or further away, moving the light source closer or further away. | 4. Explain what a reflection is | when light bounces off something shiny. | 5. Explain why your shadow moves over time | the position of the Earth relative to the Sun has changed. |
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