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. What is the Large Magellanic Cloud? | The Large Magellanic Cloud is the galaxy nearest to our own, about 170 thousand light-years away. | 2. How many constellations have names? | There are 88 named constellations. | 3. What is an asterism? | An asterism is a smaller star formation within a constellation. | 4. Name two natural objects that are in the Kuiper Belt | Pluto, Charon, Ceres or Eris are dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. | 5. What was studied by the Voyager 2 Space Probe? | The planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. | 6. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our solar system lies halfway along which spiral arm? | Our solar system lies on the Orion Arm. | 7. In which constellation is the star Castor located? [Solar Walk] | Castor is a star in the constellation Gemini. | 8. Which galaxy is the furthest thing we can see from Earth using just our eyes? | The Andromeda Galaxy is the furthest thing we can see with just our eyes. | 9. Ganymede is larger than Mercury or Pluto, but it is not a planet. What is it? [Solar Walk] | Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and it travels around Jupiter. | 10. A shooting star is not a star at all. What is a shooting star? | It is a meteor that has entered the Earth's atmosphere. | 11. What do most astronomers believe is at the center of most large galaxies? Hint: it is probably caused by the continuing collapse of a pulsar star. | Most scientist believe that a black hole is at the center of large galaxies, including our Milky Way galaxy. | 12. An astronomical unit (abbreviated AU) is the distance from the Sun to this other space object and is the scale for measuring distances across the solar system. What object is it?[Solar Walk] | The AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth. | 13. Bonus: Mira is a star in the Milky Way. What is unusual about Mira? | It has a tail more than 13 light years long and every 330 days it becomes incredibly bright. |
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