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 are the three types of rocks in the rock cycle? | igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary | 2. What are the two types of igneous rocks? | intrusive and extrusive | 3. Intrusive igneous rocks cool how? | Slowly | 4. Metamorphic rocks form using what? | Heat and pressure | 5. If water gets into a rock and freezes and cools several times breaking the rock down, this is what type of weathering? | mechanical weathering | 6. What illustrates how rocks change from one types to another? | the rock cycle | 7. Molten rock inside the earth is | magma | 8. The transportation of sediment from one place to another is known as | erosion | 9. Extrusive rocks take less time to form and thus have _____ crystals | smaller | 10. How can a rock be changed into sedimentary rock? | weathering and erosion | 11. What type of rock is formed under the earth? | intrusive igneous | 12. Wind carries small sediment particles during a desert sandstorm; this is an example of what? | erosion | 13. Wind blows across a rock smoothing it out and breaking it down into smaller particles; this is an example of what? | mechanical weathering | 14. A lichen (fungus) grows on a rock and uses that rock for nutrients, slowly breaking the rock down; this is an example of what? | biological weathering | 15. After transforming to sediment, the metamorphic rock transforms to sedimentary rock by ____ | cementation and compaction | 16. Metamorphic rock transforms to igneous rock by _____ | melting and cooling | 17. Metamorphic rock transforms to sediment by _____ | weathering and erosion | 18. Igneous rock transforms to sediment by _____ | weathering and erosion | 19. Sedimentary rock transforms to igneous rock by _____ | melting and cooling | 20. Igneous rock transforms to metamorphic rock by _____ | heat and pressure | 21. The term “igneous” means _____ | fire-formed |
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