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. actual mechanical advantage | ___________ is what a machine actually does | 2. compound machine | A ________________ is a combination of multiple simple machines | 3. circuit | A path or trip around something | 4. electrical current | A form of energy that is carried through wires and is used to operate machines, lights, etc | 5. electromagnetic wave | Waves that can transfer electric and magnetic energy through the vacuum of space | 6. energy | A usable power that comes from heat, electricity, etc | 7. fossil fuel | A fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the earth from plant or animal remains | 8. friction | The force that one surface exerts on another when the two surfaces rub against each other | 9. fulcrum | The fixed point around which a lever pivots | 10. generator | A machine that transfers energy to create electricity | 11. gravitational force | The force of attraction between all masses in the universe | 12. green energy | Energy that comes from the use of natural renewable resources | 13. inclined plane | A simple machine that is a flat, sloped surface | 14. inertia | The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion | 15. inversely proportional | A relationship where a number either increases as another decreases or decreases as another increases; the opposite of directly proportional | 16. kinetic energy | Energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion | 17. lever | A simple machine that consists of a rigid bar that pivots about a fixed point | 18. machine | A device that changes the amount of force exerted, the distance over which a force is exerted, or the direction in which force is exerted | 19. mechanical advantage | The ratio of the force produced by a machine to the force applied to it, used in assessing the performance of a machine | 20. mechanical energy | The sum of potential energy and kinetic energy, it is the energy associated with the motion and position of an object | 21. motion | The state in which one object’s distance from another is changing | 22. applied force | A force that is applied to an object by a person or another object | 23. chemical reaction | A process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction | 24. constant speed | Is the rate of speed without any acceleration or regression and it is also not changing | 25. electrical current | A flow of electric charge | 26. Newton’s Laws | A set of laws that define force and motion | 27. potential energy | The stored motion of an object, it’s ability to become active | 28. pulley | A simple machine that consists of a grooved wheel with a rope or cable wrapped around it | 29. simple machine | Any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force | 30. proportional | Corresponding in size or amount to something else | 31. thermal energy | Type of energy that is generated and measured by any kind of heat | 32. unbalanced force | The force of one object onto another, resulting in the first object’s motion | 33. velocity | The speed of something in a given direction | 34. wheel and axle | A simple machine that consists of two attached circular or cylindrical objects that rotate about a common axis, each one with a different radius | 35. work | Force exerted on an object that causes it to move |
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