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. A rock is taken from the surface of the moon and brought to Earth. What is different about this rock on Earth | Its weight | 2. Which of feature can be found on both the moon and the Earth | Mountains | 3. How is it possible for the moon to shine at night even though it produces no light | The moon reflects the light from the Sun | 4. In photos taken from space the Earth appears to be blue, while the moon appears to be white. This difference in appearance occurs because | a great deal of the Earth is covered by water, but there is none on the moon. | 5. Can you identify the characteristic that the Earth, moon and Sun all share | spherical shape | 6. Can you identify which object just has frozen ice on its poles | moon | 7. Can you identify which is the largest object | Sun |
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