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. What is the most significant landform in the United States? | Interior Plains | 2. What flattened the interior plains millions of years ago? | Glaciers | 3. Where is the Ozark Plateau found? | Missouri | 4. Where are the Badlands located? | South Dakota | 5. What are the 2 sections of the Interior Plains? | Great Plains and the Central Plains | 6. What are moraines and where are they found? | large piles of rock left behind by the glacier found in Minnesota | 7. What is common during spring in the Midwest? | rain/floods | 8. Name 3 states in the Midwest. | Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin | 9. What are common crops in the Great Plains? | wheat and hay | 10. What is the most important resource in the Midwest? | soil | 11. What is the most important fuel in the Midwest? | coal | 12. Where do we get iron ore? | Minnesota | 13. What 2 states are there a lot of limestone quarries? | Iowa and Missouri | 14. What are the most important crops in the Central Plains? | corn and soybeans | 15. In what states is forestry important? | Wisconsin, Michigan, and northern Minnesota | 16. What is the major body of water in the Midwest? | The Great Lakes | 17. What is the major waterway in the Midwest? | The Mississippi River | 18. Where is dairy cattle important? | Wisconsin | 19. What is used to carry resources down the river? | barges | 20. What state has 2 peninsulas? | Michigan |
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