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. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that | energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form | 2. The element with atomic number 6 is | Carbon | 3. When palaeontologists mention the "Cambrian Explosion", they are referring to | a sudden burst of evolutionary activity | 4. Genetics is the study of how traits are | Inherited | 5. To keep a heavy box from sliding across a carpeted floor at constant speed, a person must continually exert a force on the box. What force works opposite to the person pushing the box? | the frictional force exerted by the floor on the box | 6. Kinetic energy is | the energy of movement | 7. Which is considered the highest cloud type? | Stratus | 8. Which gas forms a layer in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun? | Ozone | 9. Why is the moon visible to us? | it reflects light from the sun | 10. What is a Coelocanth? | a fish |
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