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 percentage of energy is available to the next trophic level? | 10% | 2. What is one way people can REUSE things? | paper or plastic bags or buy cloth | 3. What are some threats to biodiversity? | habitat destuction and overhunting | 4. What is the term for growing plants in water without soil? | hydroponics | 5. What do the direction of arrows in a food chain tell you? | how energy is flowing | 6. What are some examples of producers? | grass and trees | 7. What can cause a forest to become unstable? | cutting down all the trees for lumber | 8. What are some benefits of genetically modified crops? | pest resistant, insect resistance, and delayed ripening | 9. What is an example of a nonrenewable resource? | fossil fuels | 10. What biome is North Carolina a part of? | temperate forest | 11. Which biome gets the least amount of solar radiation over all? | tundra | 12. What are the principles of geothermal heating on a small scale? | everything has heat no matter how cold and dump heat to ground in summer | 13. What are abiotic factors? | all the nonliving parts of an ecosystem | 14. What is one problem with solar power when it is cloudy? | you need a backup energy source | 15. What is the name of the power plant that gives us electricity? | Shearon Harris |
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