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 subject of the sentence? After school, the teachers and parents had a long meeting. | The teachers and parents | 2. What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence? Before a long day at school, we ate a huge breakfast!2 | Before a long day at school2 | 3. Combine the sentences. Yesterday was sunny. We played outside for a very long time.3 | Yesterday was sunny, so we played outside for a very long time.3 | 4. Name the type of sentence. Bring your agenda to class.4 | Imperative4 | 5. Name the type of figurative language. What does it mean? He’s off his rocker.5 | Idiom-He’s a little wacky or crazy.5 | 6. What is the meaning of the capitalized word? I just ADORE playing in the rain even though my best friend hates it!6 | love6 | 7. What part of speech belongs in the blank? Should we place the lunchboxes ______________ the table by the door?7 | preposition7 | 8. Correct the sentence. I found your library book under the table kyle said as I passed him in the hallway8 | ”I found your library book under the table,” Kyle said as I passed him in the hallway.8 | 9. Name the type of figurative language. My new pillow is as fluffy as a baby bunny.9 | simile9 | 10. What does an adverb do?10 | It describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. It tells how, when, where, how much, and how often.10 | 11. List the 7 coordinating conjunctions11 | FANBOYS – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so11 | 12. What is the definition of a pronoun? Give 5 examples.12 | A word that replaces a noun. They, she, it, we, she (There are more possible answers.)12 | 13. Why do writer’s use figurative language?13 | To make their writing more interesting and descriptive13 | 14. What is synonym in the sentence of the capitalized word? The student’s story was very VIVID, because she used descriptive details to help paint a picture in the mind of the reader.14 | descriptive14 | 15. Give proper nouns to replace the common nouns in the sentence. My mother had to go the store to buy my favorite candy for my birthday.15 | Answers will vary. One example – Target, M&M’s15 |
What is the subject of the sentence? After school, the teachers and parents had a long meeting.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 15)
What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence? Before a long day at school, we ate a huge breakfast!2&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 15)
Combine the sentences. Yesterday was sunny. We played outside for a very long time.3&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 15)
Name the type of sentence. Bring your agenda to class.4&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 15)
Name the type of figurative language. What does it mean? He’s off his rocker.5&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 15)
What is the meaning of the capitalized word? I just ADORE playing in the rain even though my best friend hates it!6&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 15)
What part of speech belongs in the blank? Should we place the lunchboxes ______________ the table by the door?7&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 15)
Correct the sentence. I found your library book under the table kyle said as I passed him in the hallway8&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 15)
Name the type of figurative language. My new pillow is as fluffy as a baby bunny.9&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 15)
What does an adverb do?10&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 15)
List the 7 coordinating conjunctions11&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 15)
What is the definition of a pronoun? Give 5 examples.12&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 15)
Why do writer’s use figurative language?13&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 15)
What is synonym in the sentence of the capitalized word? The student’s story was very VIVID, because she used descriptive details to help paint a picture in the mind of the reader.14&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 15)
Give proper nouns to replace the common nouns in the sentence. My mother had to go the store to buy my favorite candy for my birthday.15&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 15)
