QR Challenge: Solar System Review Game
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. 1. What causes day? |
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2. 2. What causes night? |
| 3. 3. How would your shadow at noon compare to your shadow in the afternoon? |
| 4. 4. Why do shadows change length? |
| 5. 5. Name the 1st four planets. |
| 6. 6. What is one reason life on earth is possible? |
| 7. 7. How much time has passed if the Earth has traveled around the sun 1 time? |
| 8. 8. How much time has passed if the Earth has rotated on it axis 1 time? |
| 9. 9. Name the last 4 planets. |
| 10. 10. True or False- Earth’s temperature would not change if we were further away from the sun. |
| 11. 11. Fill in the blank: During a new moon the moon is ____________ the sun and earth. |
| 12. 12. How much time has passed if the moon has gone through 3 lunar cycles? About ______ months. |
| 13. 13. Look at the picture below, which location is experiencing summer? |
| 14. 14. In what direction do the moon and sun appear to move across the sky? |
| 15. 15. What is one reason life on Earth is possible? |
| 16. 16. Pick a planet (besides Earth) and give one reason why life is not possible on this planet. |
| 17. 17. True or False: We (humans) could survive on Earth without light from the sun. |
| 18. 18. At what time of day are shadows longest? | |
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1._What_causes_day?
Question 1 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2._What_causes_night?
Question 2 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3._How_would_your_shadow_at_noon_compare_to_your_shadow_in_the_afternoon?
Question 3 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4._Why_do_shadows_change_length?
Question 4 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5._Name_the_1st_four_planets.
Question 5 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6._What_is_one_reason_life_on_earth_is_possible?
Question 6 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7._How_much_time_has_passed_if_the_Earth_has_traveled_around_the_sun_1_time?
Question 7 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8._How_much_time_has_passed_if_the_Earth_has_rotated_on_it_axis_1_time?
Question 8 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=9.__Name_the_last_4_planets.
Question 9 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10._True_or_False-_Earth’s_temperature_would_not_change_if_we_were_further_away_from_the_sun.
Question 10 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=11._Fill_in_the_blank:_During_a_new_moon_the_moon_is______________the_sun_and_earth.
Question 11 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=12._How_much_time_has_passed_if_the_moon_has_gone_through_3_lunar_cycles?_About________months.
Question 12 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=13._Look_at_the_picture_below,_which_location_is_experiencing_summer?
Question 13 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=14._In_what_direction_do_the_moon_and_sun_appear_to_move_across_the_sky?
Question 14 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=15._What_is_one_reason_life_on_Earth_is_possible?
Question 15 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=16._Pick_a_planet_(besides_Earth)_and_give_one_reason_why_life_is_not_possible_on_this_planet.
Question 16 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=17._True_or_False:_We_(humans)_could_survive_on_Earth_without_light_from_the_sun.
Question 17 (of 18)
Solar System Review Game : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=18._At_what_time_of_day_are_shadows_longest?
Question 18 (of 18)