QR Challenge: Solar System Vocabulary
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. A chunk of ice, rock and dust that moves around the sun. | comet
|
2. A change in the moon's shape. | phase
| 3. a piece of equipment that makes faraway objects seem closer. | telescope
| 4. Round objects that are satellites of the sun. | planets
| 5. The force of attraction that pulls the planets toward the sun. | gravity
| 6. The sun and all the objects that travel around it. | solar system
| 7. One complete trip around an object in a circular path. | revolution
| 8. The complete spin of an object on its axis. | rotation
| 9. A real or imaginary line that an object spins around. | axis
| 10. The path a revolving object takes. | orbit
| 11. A sphere of hot gases that gives off light and heat. | star
| 12. A hollow area or pit in the ground. | crater
| 13. The rise and fall of the ocean's surface. | tides
| 14. Large chunks of rock or metal in space. | asteroids
| 15. Meteors that reach the Earth's surface. | meteroite
| 16. Meteoroids that enter Earth's atmosphere. | meteor
| 17. The blanket of gases that surrounds Earth. | atmosphere |
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_chunk_of_ice,_rock_and_dust_that_moves_around_the_sun.
Question 1 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_change_in_the_moon's_shape.
Question 2 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=a_piece_of_equipment_that_makes_faraway_objects_seem_closer.
Question 3 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Round_objects_that_are_satellites_of_the_sun.
Question 4 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_force_of_attraction_that_pulls_the_planets_toward_the_sun.
Question 5 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_sun_and_all_the_objects_that_travel_around_it.
Question 6 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=One_complete_trip_around_an_object_in_a_circular_path.
Question 7 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_complete_spin_of_an_object_on_its_axis.
Question 8 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_real_or_imaginary_line_that_an_object_spins_around.
Question 9 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_path_a_revolving_object_takes.
Question 10 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_sphere_of_hot_gases_that_gives_off_light_and_heat.
Question 11 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_hollow_area_or_pit_in_the_ground.
Question 12 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_rise_and_fall_of_the_ocean's_surface.
Question 13 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Large_chunks_of_rock_or_metal_in_space.
Question 14 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Meteors_that_reach_the_Earth's_surface.
Question 15 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Meteoroids_that_enter_Earth's_atmosphere.
Question 16 (of 17)
Solar System Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_blanket_of_gases_that_surrounds_Earth.
Question 17 (of 17)
