QR Challenge: Eco-warrior

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. 1. True or False Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a young Native American gangster who fights to save the environment.	false
2. 2. True or False Because his name is complicated, people call him X.	true
3. 3. True or False When he was five, he had the idea to save the planet by closing all the shops and cinemas.	false
4. 4. True or False When he was six, he realised that it was citizens, who buy products factories make, that have the power.	true
5. 5. True or False He realised this after seeing the film-documentary The Eleventh Hour, by Leonardo DiCaprio.	true
6. 6. True or False The documentary touched him so much he made a rap song, that he sang at his school.	false
7. 7. True or False X lives in Boulder, Texas, with his parents and seven brothers and sisters.	false
8. 8. True or False His father is Mexican, so X grew up with Aztec traditions, music and dance.	true
9. 9. True or False Aztecs believed that they were the guardians of the Earth, which means they had the power to use the planet’s resources as they wished.	false
10. 10. True or False His father founded an organisation called the Earth Guardians.	false
11. 11. True or False The Earth Guardians of Colorado organise ecological projects like fighting against pesticides and not using plastic bags.	true
12. 12. True or False X participated in the COP21 summit and was the youngest speaker to address the United Nations on climate problems.	true
13. 13.True or False He thinks that only important people can help make a better future.	false
14. 14. True or False He encourages people to do whatever they love, their passion, to help in environmental problems like being a poet, a photographer or an activist.	true
15. 15.True or False X writes and performs rap songs with his older sister and brother.	false

 

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