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 name of the fastest growing urban area in the world? | Yangtze River Delta | 2. How many megacities are found within the Yangtze River Delta? | 16 | 3. What is the estimated population of the Yangtze River Delta region? | 75 million | 4. China’s rapid economic growth may see it replacing which country as the fourth largest economic power in the early 21st century? | UK | 5. Shanghai has been described as the largest construction site in the world. How many buildings of 24-or-more storeys are currently in the city? | 4000 | 6. How many buildings of 24-or-more storeys are currently under construction in Shanghai or with planning approval? | 1,700 | 7. By how much did Shanghai’s population grow between 1949 and 2000? | 11.5 million | 8. What had Shanghai’s population estimated to have reached by 2006? | 20 million people | 9. Approximately how many times smaller is London’s population than Shanghai’s? | 2.6 | 10. High-profile modern shopping malls, a Formula 1 circuit, a snow dome, the 83rd Starbucks outlet which opened in 2006, and the next Disneyland all show evidence of which geographical process happening in Shanghai? | Globalisation | 11. Which major world event (the largest after the Olympics) was hosted in Shanghai in 2010, the first time ever in an LEDC and attracted 65 million visitors? | World Expo | 12. What characteristic feature of all other LEDCs is absent in Shanghai due to the strict need for work permits and high government intervention in housing? | Squatter settlements | 13. In addition to the success of China’s one child policy, what other factor led to stabilisation of Shanghai’s population in the late 1990s? | Satellite towns | 14. Housing shortages and overcrowding are problems in Shanghai. Almost 50% of the population live on less than what percentage of the city’s total land area? | 5% | 15. What was the average population density of Shanghai in 1985? | 40,000to160,000/sq km | 16. How many households had sub-standard living space in 1985? | 1.8 million | 17. China’s government is still promoting rapid urbanisation as a means to improve national living standards and productivity. How many people does it plan to move from rural to urban areas? | 300 million | 18. Poor building construction, competition for land, forced resettlement and what other housing problem have resulted in Shanghai from rapid urbanisation? | Property speculation | 19. Rising affluence and globalisation have resulted in what specific issues in Shanghai? | Transport | 20. Approximately how many bicycles are used on Shanghai’s roads? | 9 million | 21. There are over 1 million cars used on Shanghai’s roads. By how much has car usage increased in the city between 1990 and 2000? | 400% | 22. If official predictions are correct and 2.5 million private cars are used in Shanghai by 2020, what will a resulting problem be? | Petrochemical smog | 23. What name is given to an environmental law that considers land, water and air pollution? | Brown Agenda | 24. What is the main source of water supply in Shanghai? | Huangpu River | 25. How many cubic metres of untreated human waste enter Shanghai’s main water supply daily? | 4 million | 26. The construction boom generates how many tonnes of building waste per day? | 30,000 | 27. Shanghai has the highest mortality rate in China for which health problem? | Cancer | 28. Air pollution is being caused by increasing traffic and the dominance of coal as a source of fuel for both industrial energy and residential heating but how much of Shanghai’s total CO2 emissions is created by the city’s industry? | 70% | 29. How many people are estimated to die each year nationally in China from breathing disorders? | 400,000 | 30. What is the average annual per capita income in the city? | £2,900, | 31. Ex-rural migrant workers in Shanghai receive, on average, what percentage of average annual per capita income? | 20% | 32. Although wages of migrants are lower than non-migrants in the city, they are higher than those in rural areas which are the equivalent of what amount? | 60p a day | 33. Shanghai is seeking to reduce its population density through decentralisation to satellite towns. Give an example of a satellite town in Shanghai. | Songjiang Town | 34. What is the name of Shanghai’s latest flagship project and eco-city? | Dongtan | 35. In 2004, the average life expectancy of Shanghai’s population reached what age (comparable with MEDCs)? | 80 | 36. Social security is a potential future concern for the city. What percentage of over-60s are estimated to be in the city by 2020? | 33.7% | 37. Shanghai has the country’s newest underground system, with a daily capacity of 1.4m predicted to reach what value by 2020? | 10 million | 38. Shanghai’s underground system is linked to which new airport by the world’s first commercial magnetic levitation train (MAGLEV), capable of reaching 431 km/h (268mph)? | Pudong | 39. Between 1990 and 2000 there was what percentage increase in road capacity by building elevated highways? | 40% | 40. What strategy is being planned for Shanghai to increase walking within the city and reduce traffic? | Pedestrianisation | 41. How many taxis operate in Shanghai, despite over 45 per cent being empty at any given time? | 45,000 | 42. Cycling is now viewed by the government as a competitor to public transport, slowing down traffic and causing accidents. It therefore aimed to reduce the number of bicycles by 25% by which year? | 2010. | 43. Shanghai attracts what percentage of the country’s foreign investment? | 10% | 44. By how much less is the unemployment rate in Shanghai than Sao Paulo? | 15.5% | 45. What name is given to the fourth-tallest building globally as found in Shanghai? | Jin Mao | 46. Pudong, ‘China’s Silicon Valley’, is approximately how many times bigger than Canary Wharf? | 8 | 47. What strategy within Pudong keeps pollution away from residential areas? | Controlled zoning | 48. TNCs in Pudong include HSBC, Gillette, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and which other major TNC? | Philips. | 49. What has been considered to be the key to Pudong’s success? | Infrastructure | 50. How many people are predicted to live in Dongtan by 2020? | 80,000 |
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