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 capital of Colorado? | Denver, CO | 2. Which town in northern Colorado was developed around Utopian ideals? | Greeley, CO | 3. Who was the African American woman who bought her way out of slavery and later became one of the wealthiest women in the west? | Aunt Clara Brown | 4. Pikes Peak or Bust is a saying for which Colorado city? | Colorado Springs, CO | 5. This Native American chief tried to create peaceful relations with the American people. | Little Raven | 6. The Gold Rush took many sleepy small towns in Colorado and grew their population over night. What is an example of these towns that we studied? | Central City, CO | 7. Who was Colorado’s connection to the Titanic ship? Remember, she was unsinkable! | Margaret Brown (Maggie or Molly would also be accepted) | 8. This conflict happened between U.S. forces and Little Raven’s people. | Sand Creek Massacre | 9. He was the founder of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and lived in Colorado Springs. | General William Jackson Palmer | 10. Who was the prominent newspaper businessman from New York who founded Greeley, CO? | Nathan Meeker |
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