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. Where was the oldest fossil found and how old was it | Australia, 3.5 by | 2. What features form at a convergent oceanic-oceanic boundar | trench mountains island arcs | 3. The East African Rift Valley is formed along what type of plate boundary | divergent | 4. How long ago did Pangaea exist | 180-300 million years | 5. What are the names of the four geologic eras | Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Precambrian | 6. How do index fossils help determine the age of a rock | infer that rocks must be from same age as fossils | 7. What organisms dominated life during the Precambrian time | bacteria | 8. which relative dating law says that the oldest layer is on the bottom | superposition | 9. what is the half-life of carbon-14 | 5730 years | 10. how is seafloor spreading different from continental drift | seafloor spreading is the creation of new ocean floor | 11. who developed the theory of continental drift | Alfred Wegener | 12. What was missing from Alfred Wegener's proposal of continental drift | mechanism for movement | 13. What are 5 pieces of evidence that Pangea once existed | coal beds, fossils, puzzle fit, climate, rocks | 14. What is the force that drives plate tectonics | convection in the mantle | 15. at which type of plate boundary is crust neither created nor destroyed | transform |
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