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. Geocentric | Model that stated that the Earth was in the center of the universe | 2. Heliocentric | Model that stated that the sun was in the center of the universe | 3. Ellipse | Oval-shaped path the planets take around the sun | 4. Solar system | the sun, the planets, their moons, and a variety of smaller objects | 5. Astronomical unit | used to measure distances within the solar system | 6. Planet | object that orbits the sun, is round, and has cleared | 7. Dwarf planet | object that orbits the sun, is spherical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit | 8. Planetesimal | small body that combined with like bodies to form all | 9. Nuclear fusion | joining of hydrogen atoms to form helium occurring in the sun | 10. Terrestrial planet | Name given to the 4 inner planets | 11. Greenhouse effect | Trapping of heats and gases that causes an increase in a planet’s surface temperature | 12. Gas giant | Name given to the 4 outer planets | 13. Ring | Thin disc of small particles of ice and rock | 14. Asteroid belt | region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter | 15. Kuiper belt | Origin of comets and asteroids | 16. Oort cloud | Shell of icy objects that exists in the outer reaches of the solar system | 17. Comet | chunk of rock or dust smaller than an asteroid | 18. Coma | fuzzy outer layer of a comet | 19. Nucleus | solid inner core of a comet | 20. Asteroid | Small rocky body orbiting the sun | 21. Meteoroid | Chunk of rock floating in space | 22. Meteor | streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters | 23. Meteorite | meteoroid found on Earth’s surface |
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