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. Weather patterns such as summer heat waves and winter cold spells are caused by large bodies of air called ____________________. | air masses | 2. The terms ____________________ and ____________________ describe the moisture Characteristics of air masses. | continental, maritime | 3. The terms ____________________ and ____________________ describe the temperature characteristics of air masses. | polar, tropical | 4. A(n) ____________________ air mass is uniformly cold and dry in winter and cool and dry in summer. | continental polar | 5. In the Great Lakes region during winter, ____________________ air masses can cause lake-effect snow. | continental polar | 6. When two air masses meet, they form a(n) ____________________, which is a boundary that separates two air masses. | front | 7. If an observer sees cirrus clouds, followed later by cirrostratus, and then altostratus, he or she is witnessing the approach of a(n) ____________________ front. | warm | 8. During the life cycle of a middle-latitude cyclone, the process of ____________________ occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front and the warm air is forced upward. | occlusion | 9. Middle-latitude cyclones are large centers of ____________________ pressure that generally travel from west to east and cause stormy weather. | low | 10. At any given time, there are an estimated ____________________ thunderstorms in progress on Earth. | 2000 | 11. A(n) ____________________ is a vertical cylinder of rotating air that develops in the updraft of a thunderstorm. | mesocyclone | 12. ____________________ are the most powerful storms on Earth. | Hurricanes |
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