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.
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1. 1. This button allows you to apply formatting once, or you can continue to apply formatting if you click it twice. It looks like a paint bucket | Format Painter | 2. 2. Takes the place of a number in a formula. Happens when you click on a cell instead of entering a number | Cell Reference | 3. 3. Automatically resizes your spreadsheets before printing | Scale To Fit | 4. 4. What is this an example of: B2 | Cell | 5. 5. This will not show up on the worksheet but you can tell it is there because there will be a dark line, and the column or row numbers or letters will not be in order anymore | Hidden Row or Column | 6. 6. This is part of a workbook, it is shown usually as a tab at the bottom with its own name | Worksheet | 7. 7. The location of the cell remains relative to the cell that contains the formula | Relative Cell Reference | 8. 8. The location of the cell does not change when you move or copy the formula. Formed by using F4 | Absolute cell reference | 9. 9. It is an absolute reference cell. It is made by defining a name for it | Named cell | 10. 10. This chart compares parts of a whole | Pie Chart | 11. 11. This chart shows trends in data over time | Line Chart | 12. 12. These tabs are activated only when a chart is selected | Chart Contextual Tabs | 13. 13. This axis runs up and down on a chart | Vertical Axis | 14. 14. This axis runs across the bottom of a chart | Horizontal Axis | 15. 15. This means if data is changed in the spreadsheet then the chart will change also | Linked data | 16. 16. This formatting calls attention to a set of data and applies a rule or rules and modifies the formatting of the cell to match the rule. It can be a change of color, text, etc. to highlight the cell | Conditional Formatting | 17. 17. This stands for Comma Separated Value | CSV | 18. 18. Pre-existing workbooks that you can use in Excel to save the time of creating new workbooks | Templates | 19. 19. This allows you to scroll through a workbook with the headings of the columns or the rows still showing and not disappearing | Freeze Panes | 20. 20. This allows you to choose what data to include and what data to filter out. The data is still there, it is just not showing | Filter | 21. 21. This can put things in alphabetical or numerical order or other options | Sort | 22. 22.It allows you to determine the value of a cell based on the outcome of a logical test | The IF Function | 23. 23.Use this to create criteria for cells that limit the possible entries into those cells | Data Validation | 24. 24. This can be added to the top of your worksheet and can be used for a title, company name, your name, etc. | Header | 25. 25.These can be added to the bottom of your document. Used for page numbers, file names, etc. | Footer |
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