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. 1. What is the name of your textbook? | Forensic Science | 2. 2. Who is the author of your textbook? | Richard Saferstein | 3. 3. What are four learning tools found in the textbook? | Key terms, web links, learning objectives, case readings. | 4. 4. What award did the author receive in 2006? | American Academy of Forensic Sciences | 5. 5. Where did the author of the book consult? | Mt.Laurel, New Jersey | 6. 6. What chapter discusses how to search a crime scene? | Chapter 2 | 7. 7. When securing a crime scene, what is ALWAYS the first priority? | Preserve and protect the area. | 8. 8. What chapter would you read if you wanted learn about forensic toxicology? | Chapter 6 | 9. 9. Define latent fingerprint. | A fingerprint made by the deposit of oils and or perspiration. | 10. 10. Define questioned Document. | Any document about which some issues has been raised or that is the subject of an investigation. | 11. 11. Who is Francis Galton? | Developed a methodology of classifying fingerprints for filing. | 12. 12. Who is Alphonse Bertillon? | Created anthropometry a system that involved taking a series of body measurements as a means of distinguishing one person from another. | 13. 13. What does CODIS stand for? | Combined DNA Index System. | 14. 14. When comparing glass fragments, what are the two physical properties of the glass that a forensic scientist must evaluate? | Density and refractive index. | 15. 15. Name three subtopics under the metabolism of alcohol. | absorption and distribution, elimination, and blood-alcohol concentration. | 16. 16. What does the Fifth Amendment to the US constitution protect citizens from? | Self incrimination | 17. 17.Who were the 2 people O.J. Simpson was accused of killing? | Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson | 18. 18. What is the debate over Napoleons death...What is the official cause of death and what is the controversy concerning his death? | Stomach cancer/Arsenic poisoning | 19. 19. What evidence was used initially to find the identity of the Unabomber? | His writing | 20. 20. What crime was Wayne Williams found guilty of? | Murder |
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