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. Who were the main two combatants in the Peloponnesian Wars? | Athens and Sparta. | 2. Who wrote the Greek tragedy ‘Medea’? | Euripides | 3. Who wrote the ‘Iliad’? When was it written? | Homer. 725BC. | 4. Who is the Greek goddess of childbirth? | Artemis | 5. Which is the only major Greek god or goddess to have the same name as his or her Roman counterpart? | Apollo | 6. When was the Battle of Salamis and who led the losing side? | 480BC. Xerxes. | 7. Translate: οἱ μεν ὀλιγοι ἰσχυροτατοι εἰσιν, οἱ δε πολλοι ἀσθενεις. | Few are very strong, many are weak. | 8. What forms are missing from this conjugation? λυομαι, λυῃ, λυομεθα, λυονται. | λυεται, λυεσθε. | 9. Name six of the Twelve Labours of Heracles. | Kill Nemean Lion. Kill Lernaean Hydra. Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis. Capture the Erymanthian Boar. Clean the Augean stables. Kill the Stymphalian Birds. Capture the Cretan Bull. Steal the Mares of Diomedes. Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta. Obtain the cattle of Geryon. Steal the apples of the Hesperides. Capture and bring back Cerberus. | 10. Name the twelve Olympian Greek gods. | Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Hestia or Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Hermes. | 11. Write out the accusative plural of 10 3rd Declension nouns. | See books. |
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Who wrote the Greek tragedy ‘Medea’?&choe=UTF-8
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Who wrote the ‘Iliad’? When was it written?&choe=UTF-8
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Who is the Greek goddess of childbirth?&choe=UTF-8
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Which is the only major Greek god or goddess to have the same name as his or her Roman counterpart?&choe=UTF-8
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When was the Battle of Salamis and who led the losing side?&choe=UTF-8
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Translate: οἱ μεν ὀλιγοι ἰσχυροτατοι εἰσιν, οἱ δε πολλοι ἀσθενεις.&choe=UTF-8
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What forms are missing from this conjugation? λυομαι, λυῃ, λυομεθα, λυονται.&choe=UTF-8
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Name six of the Twelve Labours of Heracles.&choe=UTF-8
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Name the twelve Olympian Greek gods.&choe=UTF-8
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Write out the accusative plural of 10 3rd Declension nouns.&choe=UTF-8
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