QR Challenge: Plastic pollution
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. What friends first major city banned plastic bags? | San Francisco
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2.
| | 3. Who approved legislation that would have banned single-use plastic bags? | Jerry Brown
| 4.
| | 5. When is Gambia No Plastic Day? | may 15
| 6.
| | 7. What do sea turtles mistake plastic for? | food
| 8.
| | 9. What happens when a bird consumes plastic? | they starve
| 10.
| | 11. How much plastic do fish consume in a year? | 12,000 to 24,000
| 12.
| | 13. Where, land or oceans, is plastic pollution the worst? | oceans
| 14.
| | 15. How long does it take for a plastic to break down? | 1,000 years
| 16.
| | 17. Who many plastic bags did they found in Pete the Pelican? | 17
| 18.
| | 19. How many square miles of plastic did Bryde's died from? | 6 |
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_friends_first_major_city_banned_plastic_bags?
Question 1 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 2 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_approved_legislation_that_would_have_banned_single-use_plastic_bags?
Question 3 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 4 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When_is_Gambia_No_Plastic_Day?
Question 5 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 6 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_do_sea_turtles_mistake_plastic_for?
Question 7 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 8 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_happens_when_a_bird_consumes_plastic?
Question 9 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 10 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_much_plastic_do_fish_consume_in_a_year?
Question 11 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 12 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Where,_land_or_oceans,_is_plastic_pollution_the_worst?
Question 13 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 14 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_long_does_it_take_for_a_plastic_to_break_down?
Question 15 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 16 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_many_plastic_bags_did_they_found_in_Pete_the_Pelican?
Question 17 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 18 (of 19)
Plastic pollution: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_many_square_miles_of_plastic_did_Bryde's_died_from?
Question 19 (of 19)