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 a force? | push or pull on an object | 2. What are the basic mineral properties? | streak, luster, hardness, color, cleavage, fracture | 3. What layer of the Earth contributes the most volume? | Mantle | 4. What is a theory? | models used to explain observations | 5. What is a law? | describe the way different data relates to each other | 6. What is the study of rocks and minerals? | geology | 7. What re the 2 main classifications of igneous rocks? | mafic and felsic | 8. What are the 2 basic types of minerals called? | silicate and non-silicate | 9. What are the slowest seismic waves that can travel only through solids? | S-waves | 10. Name the soil horizons from the top down. | O,A,B,C | 11. What is the Law of Superposition? | Each layer of sedimentary rock is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it. | 12. Name the 5 oceans from largest to smallest | Pacific Atlantic Indian Southern Arctic | 13. What percent of the planet is covered by oceans? | 70% | 14. What are the 4 main elements found in the ocean? | Oxygen, Hydrogen, Sodium, Chlorine | 15. How do surface currents travel? | wind | 16. What is the measure of dissolved salt in a given amount of liquid? | Salinity | 17. What is the relationship between temperature and density? | 18. What causes deep ocean currents? | changes in temperature and salinity | 19. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen? | 78% | 20. What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen? | 20% | 21. Name the layers of the atmosphere from the ground up | Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere | 22. What does a barometer measure? | air pressure | 23. What does a hygrometer measure? | humidity | 24. What is the Big Bang Theory? | That the earth was created from the explosion of a large amount of gas and dust | 25. What is the Day-Age Theory? | that the length of a day is more than 24 hours | 26. What are the 4 states/phases of matter? | solid, liquid, gas, plasma |
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