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. 1.The literary movement that Whitman, Thoreau, and Emerson were a part. All spoke of preservation and of man's role. | transcendentalism | 2. 2. During the industrial revolution, a major shift from the energy source _____ to _____ occurred. | wood,coal | 3. 3.While the _____________Act encouraged human development in the 1860's,the ___________of the 1890's established responsibility of fed. govt. of protecting forest reserves. | Homestead, Forest Reserve Act | 4. 4.In 1900, the _________was passed to prevent the transport of plants and animals between states. | Lacey Act | 5. 5.This caught on fire and burned for 8 days in 1969 due to flammable, volatile products dumped into it. | Cuyahouga | 6. 6.Chisso corporation dumped this toxic metal into Mimamata Bay.It lead to _____disorders in those that ate the fish. | mercury, neurological | 7. 7. Under this administration, the EPA was established. | Nixon | 8. 8. During this decade, environmental activism increased significantly. | 1970's | 9. 9. Both mercury and DDT have the ability to be persistent. It can ___________ through within the tissues of those that consume it. | bioaccumulate | 10. 10. This act was passed to address the population decline of whales, manatees, and other mammals that have been "overfished". | Marine Mammal Protection Act | 11. 11. This was passed (and ammended several times) to monitor and control the ambient air quality standards of six air pollutants. | Clean Air Act | 12. 12. This act was responsible for funding of nuclear power plants. | Atomic Energy Act | 13. 13. This N.C. native started the soil conservation society in wake of the Dustbowl disaster of the 1930's. | Hugh Hammond Bennett | 14. 14. Established in 1973 to protect flora and fauna against sustainable harvest and protected those for future depletion. | Endangered Species Act | 15. 15."CERCLA" or ______________ was established in 1980 that forced responsible parties to clean up hazardous waste sites. | Superfund | 16. 16. ________________ was passed to make guilty parties in oil disasters liable for damages caused as a result. | Oil Pollution Act | 17. 17. During the 1990's chlorine in stratosphere linked to depletion of the _____. | ozone layer | 18. 18. During 1980, _____________linked to atmospheric lead. | leaded gasolene |
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