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 the line of latitude that runs around the centre of the world called? | Equator | 2. What is the object hit by the players in ice hockey called? | Puck | 3. How many wives did Henry VIII have? | Six | 4. Which jet-black bird has lived in the Tower of London for centuries? | Raven | 5. What term is used in cricket for the two men on the field who decide on whether batsmen are out, and signal for extras and boundaries? | Umpires | 6. | 7. | 8. What is the island next to Australia? | Tasmania | 9. Thailand is the world’s biggest exporter of what food type? | Rice | 10. Which river rises in Peru, enters the sea in Brazil and at no point is crossed by a bridge? | Amazon | 11. Cocker, Springer and King Charles are varieties of which breed of dog? | Spaniels | 12. What famous structure was built on Salisbury Plane in the third millennium BC? | Stonehenge |
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