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QR Challenge: Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park

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Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

B. The lesson:

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!

C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. How old is the Meridian Bridge? Read sign at foot of bridgeIt was completed in 1924. Walk to the NE side to learn about Green Island.
2. When was Green Island washed away?During a spring ice gorge on March 30, 1881. Walk back to the SD end of bridge and check out the display on your right.
3. Name the Swiss artist who painted pictures of the Native American Tribes on the Missouri River.Karl Bodner. Next find a sculpture near the bridge.
4. What is the name of the sculpture and its creator?"Fish Wish" by Scott Luken. Head east to the Territorial Capital display by the building in Riverside Park.
5. When was Yankton designated the Territorial Capital of the Dakota Territory?In 1862. Look on the east side of the capitol building replica for next QR.
6. Who was one of the most successful steamboat captains on the Missouri River?Captain Grant Marsh. Find a display on the bike path titled "Sculpting the River"
7. How is an oxbow lake formed?Ox bows are meanders cut off from the main river. Walk to the amphitheater.
8. What kind of trees are most common in Riverside Park?The cottonwoods which like to be near the water. Walk along Levee Street making your way back to the puzzle inside the Mobile Ranger Station.
9. How many pieces are in the MRS puzzle?24 pieces.Look at the displays on the walls of the trailer
10. What is the name of an endangered species in two the Missouri National Recreational River districts?Piping plover, least tern and pallid sturgeon

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_old_is_the_Meridian_Bridge?_Read_sign_at_foot_of_bridge

Question 1 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When_was_Green_Island_washed_away?

Question 2 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name_the_Swiss_artist_who_painted_pictures_of_the_Native_American_Tribes_on_the_Missouri_River.

Question 3 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_name_of_the_sculpture_and_its_creator?

Question 4 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When_was_Yankton_designated_the_Territorial_Capital_of_the_Dakota_Territory?

Question 5 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_was_one_of_the_most_successful_steamboat_captains_on_the_Missouri_River?

Question 6 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_is_an_oxbow_lake_formed?

Question 7 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_kind_of_trees_are_most_common_in_Riverside_Park?

Question 8 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_many_pieces_are_in_the_MRS_puzzle?

Question 9 (of 10)

 


Scavenger Hunt Meridian Bridge/Riverside Park: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_name_of_an_endangered_species_in_two_the_Missouri_National_Recreational_River_districts?

Question 10 (of 10)