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. What is the Antarctica treaty? | multiple answers | 2. How many countries were in the original treaty? | 12 | 3. Which countries were in the original treaty? | Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway,South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and USSR | 4. What is the lowest temperature recorded in Antarctica? | -82°c | 5. What is the surface area of Antarctica? | 14,000,000 km squared 5,400,000 sq mi | 6. What is the largest city in Antarctica? | The the largest city in Antarctica is McMurdo Station. | 7. What is the most common animal in Antarctica? | The The blue whale is the most common animal in Antarctica | 8. How thick is the ice in Antarctica? | The thickest ice sheet is 4,776 m thick | 9. What is the main cause for the ice to be melting? | Global warming | 10. Which direction can you look towards when you are at the south of south pole? | North | 11. How can you go to Antarctica? | By plane or boat | 12. How many people visited Antarctica in 2009? | 37,000 people | 13. How many countries are in the actual Antarctica treaty? | 38 | 14. Which countries are in the current Antarctic treaty? | Austria, Belarus, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Turkey, and Venezuela. Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and United States | 15. Which year was the Antarctic treaty signed? | Washington 1959 | 16. Which year was Antarctica discovered? | Antarctica was discovered in 1772 | 17. Which civilization explored Antarctica first? | Norwegian | 18. What was the warmest temperature in Antarctica? | 17.5° | 19. How many countries own parts of the Antarctica? | 8 | 20. What is the average temperature in Antarctica? | -49 c |
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