QR Challenge: Plate Tectonics

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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. At a transform plate boundary, where two plates slide horizontally past each other, crust is	neither created nor destroyed.
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3. _______ from the mantle rises and flows out through a vent onto Earth's surface as _______. This molten material, sometimes along with ash, cinders, and rock, builds up a mountain around the vent. The vent and its mountain together are called a _______.	Magma; lava; volcano
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5. List Earth's compositional layers in order of increasing density?	crust, mantle, core
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7. Fossil fuels	form from the remains of organisms that lived long ago.
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9. The Earth's _______ is a rigid layer that consists of the entire crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.	lithosphere
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11. Which type of rock contains minerals arranged in crystals and forms when molten rock cools and turns solid?	igneous rock
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13. Most of the Earth's volume is contained in the _______ .	mantle
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15. What is the name for the process of recycling materials that make up the Earth's crust and mantle?	the rock cycle
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17. The early hypothesis of _______ was based on observations that suggested continents were once joined together. Later, the theory of _______ explained why large pieces of Earth's surface move around and how many of Earth's features form.	continental drift; plate tectonics
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19. The _______ is part of the Earth's mantle and lies immediately beneath the lithosphere.	asthenosphere

Plate Tectonics: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=At_a_transform_plate_boundary,_where_two_plates_slide_horizontally_past_each_other,_crust_is

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