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. Some metals are very important in electronics because they are: Conductors, magnetic, Inexpensive, are made of iron | conductors | 2. Mineral deposits in streams may be extracted by: Open-pit mining, dredging, Satellite imagery, leaching | dredging | 3. The fertile layer of a soil profile is the: Subsoil, bedrock, Topsoil, rooting layer | topsoil | 4. The bedrock from which an area of soil may have formed is called the soil’s: B horizon, parent rock, Mineral deposit, A horizon | parent rock | 5. Many minerals occur naturally on the surface of Earth in the form of: Plants, rocks, Water, streams | rocks | 6. Ores are rocks or minerals that: Are fused together, are metamorphic, Contain soil, contain valuable metals and nonmetals | contain vauable metals/nonmet | 7. Which of the following is an element? Lead (Pb), salt (NaCl), Sulfuric acid (H2SO4), water (H2O) | Lead | 8. Which of the following compounds are made up of three elements? Hydrochloric acid (HCl), sugar (C6H12O6), Ammonia ( NH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) | sugar | 9. Sand and computer chips share what element as their basic component? Carbon, oxygen, Silver, silicon | silicon | 10. Which of the following is NOT a distinct property of a mineral? Fracture hardness, Size, streak | size | 11. Valuable metals are removed from ores during the process of: Mining, cleavage, Smelting, ductility | cleavage | 12. Metals are useful in industry because they can be shaped without breaking. This property of metals is known as: Versatility, malleability, Conductivity, luster | malleability | 13. Open pit mining is a kind of: Dredging, field study, Subsurface mining, surface mining | surface mining | 14. One way to reduce the extent and impact of mining is to: Use subsurface mining, Recycle metals, Use more iron, Reduce the use of aerial photography | recycle | 15. Engineers have designed experimental cars that use liquid hydrogen instead of hydrogen fuel instead of gasoline. This is an example of: Recycling, substitution, Reuse, forming a new element | substitution | 16. Rock is broken down into soil by the process of: Erosion, weathering, Mechanics, accumulation | weathering | 17. The type of soil that has good drainage and sufficient moisture and that is best for most growing plants in called: Loam, silt, Clay, sand | loam | 18. Soil in which tiny clay particles are most abundant tends to: Drain quickly, trap water, Be well aerated, occur in bogs | trap water | 19. Tundra and desert biomes have shallow soil profiles because weathering is limited by a lack of:Temperature extremes, nutrients, Bedrock, water | water |
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