QR Challenge: Mountains & Volcanoes
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. The top of a mountain is called this | Summit
|
2. Another name for the height of a mountain | Elevation
| 3. You would begin your climb here | Base Camp
| 4. The name of the highest mountain in the world | Everest
| 5. This mountain can be found in Switzerland (tram hornet) | Matterhorn
| 6. This mountain can be found in Africa (jail monk air) | Kilimanjaro
| 7. He was the first man to climb Everest | Sir Edmund Hilary
| 8. The Andes can be found on this continent | South America
| 9. This can occur during the eruption of a volcano | Pyroclastic flow
| 10. The name of Europe's most active volcano | Etna
| 11. A device used to measure earthquakes | Seismograph
| 12. One of the four types of plate boundary (crimson pose) | Compression
| 13. The technique used to date eruptions from the past | Carbon dating
| 14. The focus point where an earthquake originates | Epicentre
| 15. An Indonesian name for a mudflow | Lahar
| 16. These are formed when plate boundaries collide | Mountain ranges |
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_top_of_a_mountain_is_called_this
Question 1 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Another_name_for_the_height_of_a_mountain
Question 2 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=You_would_begin_your_climb_here
Question 3 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_name_of_the_highest_mountain_in_the_world
Question 4 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_mountain_can_be_found_in_Switzerland_(tram_hornet)
Question 5 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_mountain_can_be_found_in_Africa_(jail_monk_air)
Question 6 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He_was_the_first_man_to_climb_Everest
Question 7 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Andes_can_be_found_on_this_continent
Question 8 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_can_occur_during_the_eruption_of_a_volcano
Question 9 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_name_of_Europe's_most_active_volcano
Question 10 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_device_used_to_measure_earthquakes
Question 11 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=One_of_the_four_types_of_plate_boundary_(crimson_pose)
Question 12 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_technique_used_to_date_eruptions_from_the_past
Question 13 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_focus_point_where_an_earthquake_originates
Question 14 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An_Indonesian_name_for_a_mudflow
Question 15 (of 16)
Mountains & Volcanoes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=These_are_formed_when_plate_boundaries_collide
Question 16 (of 16)
