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. What is the definition for birth rate? | The number of babies born per 1000 people per year | 2. What is the definition for death rate? | The number of deaths per 1000 people per year | 3. The average number of years a person is expected to live for? | Infant mortality | 4. What is the total fertility rate? | Average number of children a woman is likely to have in her lifetime | 5. When a population has a high number of 65 year olds or older it is known as what? | Ageing population | 6. For a youthful population at which age are they considered to be young? | 15 | 7. How is the dependency ration normally displayed? | As a percentage | 8. Define the term infant mortality | The number of infants dying before the age of 1 per 1000 live births per year | 9. How a population is spread out over an area can best be described as... | Population distribution | 10. A very rapid increase in population can best be described as... | Population explosion | 11. What is population density | The number of people living in a given area (people per km2) | 12. What is the DTM | Demographic Transition Model | 13. If birth rates exceed death rates what will follow? | Natural increase | 14. Which diagram used to show the age and sex of a population? | Population pyramid | 15. An example of a densely populated part of the UK is | London and the South East | 16. A case study to show how one country has tried to reduce birth rates (anti natalist) | China | 17. What was the slogan for Singapore’s pro natalist policy to increase the birth rate? | Have three or more | 18. Why is the East of China more densely populated than the West? | Close proximity to the coast for trade | 19. What percentage of China’s population live on just 50% of the land? | 90% | 20. On average how many people live per square km in London? | 500 | 21. On average how many people live per square km in the UK? | 243 | 22. When was China’s one child policy put in place? | 1979 | 23. What had China encouraged in the 1950’s? | Rapid population growth | 24. If you did not follow the one child policy how large could the fine for families be? | 4 times your earnings | 25. How much has the birth rate fallen in China due to the one child policy? | 34 per 1000 in 1970 to 13 per 1000 in 2008 | 26. How much does the Singapore government pay for the 1st and 2nd child? | $3000 | 27. How many days of childcare are paid for by the Singapore government? | 5 | 28. Which year did Singapore decide to start the ‘have three or more’ policy? | 1987 | 29. In the UK and Germany there are ageing populations. What might the government have to do to tackle this issue? | Raise the age of retirement | 30. When people over the age of 65 spend money it is known as what? | The grey pound |
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