QR Challenge: Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West
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. True or False California is the nation's leading agricultural state. | True
|
2. The huge desert west of the Rockies is the ___________. | Great Basin
| 3. A sudden shaking of the ground is an ____________. | earthquake
| 4. True or False Temperature rises as elevation increases. | False
| 5. Most volcanoes in the __________are in states that border the Pacific Ocean. | West
| 6. The elevation above which temperatures are too low for trees to grow is called the _____________. | timberline
| 7. True or False The country's driest, and hottest land is in the Great Basin. | False
| 8. Trees are harvested to make ______ and _______ products. | lumber,paper
| 9. Mt. McKinley is known as _____ in a Native American Language. | Denali
| 10. A _________ is a mountain formed when erupted lava cools and hardens. | volcano
| 11. True or False Nevada and California are considered the flattest and driest states in the West Region. | False
| 12. Cracks in the Earth's layer are called _______. | faults
| 13. The Rocky Mountains mark the end of the _______ and the beginning of the ______. | Midwest,West
| 14. True or False Large movements of the earth in an earthquake can damage entire cities or larger areas. | True
| 15. Trees don't grow above the timberline because the temperature is too _______. | cool |
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False_California_is_the_nation's_leading_agricultural_state.
Question 1 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_huge_desert_west_of_the_Rockies_is_the____________.
Question 2 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_sudden_shaking_of_the_ground_is_an_____________.
Question 3 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False_Temperature_rises_as_elevation_increases.
Question 4 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Most_volcanoes_in_the___________are_in_states_that_border_the_Pacific_Ocean.
Question 5 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_elevation_above_which_temperatures_are_too_low_for_trees_to_grow_is_called_the______________.
Question 6 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False__The_country's_driest,_and_hottest_land_is_in_the_Great_Basin.
Question 7 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Trees_are_harvested_to_make________and_________products.
Question 8 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Mt._McKinley_is_known_as_______in_a_Native_American_Language.
Question 9 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A___________is_a_mountain_formed_when_erupted_lava_cools_and_hardens.
Question 10 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False__Nevada_and_California_are_considered_the_flattest_and_driest_states_in_the_West_Region.
Question 11 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Cracks_in_the_Earth's_layer_are_called________.
Question 12 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Rocky_Mountains_mark_the_end_of_the_________and_the_beginning_of_the_______.
Question 13 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False__Large_movements_of_the_earth_in_an_earthquake_can_damage_entire_cities_or_larger_areas.
Question 14 (of 15)
Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Geography of the West: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Trees_don't_grow_above_the_timberline_because_the_temperature_is_too________.
Question 15 (of 15)
