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. The crust and upper area of the earth’s mantle. | lithosphere | 2. A large piece of the earth’s crust that floats on the melted rock in the earth’s mantle. | plate | 3. The idea that the earth’s crust is made up of moving plates. | theory of plate tectonics | 4. The place where plates meet. | plate boundary | 5. An event that occurs when rocks along the plate boundaries shift suddenly and release their stored energy. | earthquake | 6. A break in the earth’s surface along which a rock can move. | fault | 7. The beginning point of an earthquake; the location from which energy waves are sent. | focus | 8. The vibrations that flow out from the focus of the earthquake. | seismic wave | 9. The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake. | epicenter | 10. A scientist who studies the movement of the earth. | seismologist | 11. The amount of energy released from an earthquake. | magnitude | 12. Giant ocean wave caused by an earthquake, volcano, or landslide occurring under or near the ocean. | tsunami | 13. Seismic wave that occur beneath the surface of the earth. | body wave | 14. Fastest moving body wave. It travels in a straight path by a push and pull motion. | P wave | 15. Slower moving body wave. It moves in an up and down zigzag motion. | S wave | 16. Seismic waves that occur when body waves reach the surface of the earth. | land wave | 17. Fastest moving land wave, move back and forth in zigzag pattern. | Love wave | 18. Land wave that moves along the ground in a rolling motion, similar to the way ocean waves roll. | Rayleigh wave | 19. A machine that is used to detect, time, and measure the movements of the earth. | seismograph | 20. The belief that at one time the earth could have been a single land mass. | Pangaea | 21. Occurs where rocks push together until they force a section of rock upward, also called a thrust fault. | reverse fault | 22. Rocks move apart and a section of rock falls between the separating rocks or molten rock from under the crust fills in the gap to form new land. | normal fault | 23. Rocks move horizontally past each other. | strike-slip fault |
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