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. What is a bad conducter of heat? | wood | 2. Where does heat come from? | sun | 3. Thermal energy moving from a warmer object to cooler object is called what? | heat | 4. What does water boil at (Celsius)? | 100 degrees Celsius | 5. Why does a ice cube melt in your hand? | because heat is transferred from the hand to the ice cube. | 6. what happens to the particles in water when it is heated? | the particles spread out and move around. | 7. Blank is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the individual particles in matter (find the blank)? | temperature | 8. When a object is heated what happends too the temapature? | it rises. | 9. What is heat measured in? | calories | 10. What is conduction? | movement through metal. |
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