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.
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| 1. Question-What is the term for an object, physical feature or a law that stops someones migration | Intervening obstacle | 2. Question2-What is population density? | a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land | 3. Question3-What is the term for a mass killing of a certain ethnic group | genocide | 4. Question4-What were the two ethnic groups involved in the Rwandan genocide | Hutu and Tutsi | 5. Question5-What were the laws of migration called | Ravenstein laws of migration | 6. Question6-What type of migration is when a person of a specific ethnic group migrates to one area and people of the same ethnic group follow to the same area | Chain migration | 7. Question7-What is arithmetic population density | the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area | 8. Question8-What is the demographic transition model | multi stage model of changes in population growth in countries undergoing industrialization | 9. Question9-What is the term for number of live births yearly per 1000 people | crude birth rate (CBR) | 10. Quesion10-A factor that attracts people to migrate to a certain destination | pull factor | 11. Question11-On average how long the average person will live | Life expectancy | 12. Question12-What is the term for manipulating the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class | gerrymandering | 13. Question13-What is the term for the number of people per unit area of arable land | physiologic population density | 14. Question14-Something that is repelling citizens from their countries and making them want to migrate | push factor | 15. Question15-What is the definition for centrifugal forces | a force that divides people and countries | 16. Question16-Every how many years is a census done in the United States | every ten years | 17. Question17-What is the term for people who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country | refugee | 18. Question18-What is internal migration | human movement within a nation-state, such as going westward and southward movements in the US | 19. Question19-What is voluntary migration | movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced. | 20. Question20-What is the term for migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | step migration |
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