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. Senator Gaylord Nelson organized the first ___________ on April 20, 1970. | Earth Day | 2. Under this president, the EPA was established along with OSHA, Resource Recovery Act (regulates waste disposal) and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 being passed. | Richard Nixon | 3. This biologist-turned author published Tragedy of the Commons. | Garrett Hardin | 4. In 1962, this biologist-turned-author wrote Silent Spring to bring awareness to the effects of pesticides such as DDT on air, water, and wildlife. | Rachel Carson | 5. He wrote Sand's County Almanac; a preservationist, he said that the role of humans should be to protect nature not to conquer it. | Aldo Leopold | 6. His goal was to bring the country out of the Great Depression; established the Civilian Conservation Corps, built dams, the Soil conservation Act of 1935. | FDR | 7. In the early 1900's, she focused their efforts on improving public health conditions,industrial medicine and pollution prevention. | Alice Hamilton | 8. An early conservationist, this author wrote Life In the Woods and Walden about nature and the wild species in his native Massachusetts. | Henry David Thoreau | 9. An early conservationist, this author wrote Man and Nature which explored the connection between the rise and fall of civilizations and their resource usage (and misuse) | George Perkins Marsh | 10. Deeply spiritual environmentalist, leader of the preservationist movement, contributed to establishing Yosemite National Park - founder of the Sierra Club | John Muir | 11. First chief of the US Forest Service - Father of American conservationism | Gifford Pinchot | 12. President who preserved 150 National Parks;26th President, his term called “the golden age of conservation”, U.S. Forest Service was established | Teddy Roosevelt | 13. Deeply spiritual environmentalist, leader of the preservationist movement, contributed to establishing Yosemite National Park - founder of the Sierra Club | John Muir | 14. In 1976, it was discovered that toxic chemicals illegally buried by Hooker Chemical Corp. were leaking into homes, groundwater, and playgrounds here. | Love Canal, NY | 15. The only accident at a nuclear power plant in the U.S. occurred in 1979 here. | Three Mile Island, PA | 16. In 1989, this had an accident and in Prince William Sound, Alaska. | Exxon Valdez | 17. In 1986, a tragic explosion at a nuclear power plant here left thyroid and other cancers in its wake. | Chernobyl |
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