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. Kroger is northwest of BWI is what kind of location? | Relative Location | 2. Sometimes people have to go to a new place in order to get a better job. Which theme does this situation represent? | Movement | 3. What is an example of absolute location? | Latitude and longitude | 4. Long ago, there were very few roads and people traveled by horse and buggy. Now we have interstate roads and almost everyone has a car. Which theme does this situation describe? | Movement | 5. I have a cousin who lives in Tennessee, she and her family, and most of the people in that state say "y'all," and "howdy." This is an example of which theme? | Region | 6. When I say that I live close to the fair grounds, I am telling you my _________location. | Relative location | 7. Some cities have lots of pollution and garbage. Which theme does this represent? | Human-Environment Interaction | 8. Give an example of the geography theme PLACE. | Eiffel Tower | 9. Areas that share common characteristics are called what? | Regions | 10. What describes the features that make a site unique? | Place | 11. The sun rises in which direction | East | 12. Latitude and longitude are measured in what? | Degrees | 13. What is located at 0 degrees longitude? | Prime Meridian | 14. What is located at 0 degrees latitude? | Equator | 15. Longitude lines are called what? | Meridians | 16. Latitude lines are called what? | Parallels | 17. North, East, South, and West are called what? | Cardinal Directions | 18. NE, NW, SE, and SW are called what? | Intermediate Directions | 19. The average measurement of temperature in a place over the course of years is called what? | Climate | 20. On a map, what can you use to predict the climate of various places around the world? | Latitude | 21. A place's EXACT position on earth is it's __________ location. | Absolute Location | 22. 40 degrees N, 110 degrees W is an example of what kind of location? | Absolute Location |
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