QR Challenge: Structural Engineering
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 is a thing with a definite size and shape that serves a purpose called? | structure
|
2.
| | 3. What is the name for stresses such as pushes or pulls that can change a structure’s shape or size? | forces
| 4.
| | 5. What is the weight carried or supported by a structure called? | load
| 6.
| | 7. What is the name for the criteria that a design needs to meet? | constraints
| 8.
| | 9. What is the study of beauty in art and nature called? | aesthetics
| 10.
| | 11. What is often the weakest part of a structure? | joints
| 12.
| | 13. What shape is considered to be the strongest? | triangle
| 14.
| | 15. What a thing is supposed to do is called its __________________? | function
| 16.
| | 17. What is used to strengthen a joint or provide support? | brace
| 18.
| | 19. How many types of joints are there? | 2 |
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_a_thing_with_a_definite_size_and_shape_that_serves_a_purpose_called?
Question 1 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 2 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_name_for_stresses_such_as_pushes_or_pulls_that_can_change_a_structure’s_shape_or_size?
Question 3 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 4 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_weight_carried_or_supported_by_a_structure_called?
Question 5 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 6 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_name_for_the_criteria_that_a_design_needs_to_meet?
Question 7 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 8 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_study_of_beauty_in_art_and_nature_called?
Question 9 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 10 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_often_the_weakest_part_of_a_structure?
Question 11 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 12 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_shape_is_considered_to_be_the_strongest?
Question 13 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 14 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_a_thing_is_supposed_to_do_is_called_its___________________?
Question 15 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 16 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_used_to_strengthen_a_joint_or_provide_support?
Question 17 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 18 (of 19)
Structural Engineering : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_many_types_of_joints_are_there?
Question 19 (of 19)