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. The French Explorers came to North America in search of the ______________. | Northwest Passage | 2. When Ponce de Leon landed in Florida he was actually looking for the ____________________ in Bimini. | Fountain of Youth | 3. ____________________ are people who teach their religion to others. | missionaries | 4. Before the conquistadors used West African slaves, the slaves were ________________________ | Native Americans | 5. The king of Spain offered explorers ________________, or free money, to go claim new lands. | grants | 6. While the Hurons and Iroquois were fighting over control of the fur trade, the explorers did nothing. Sometimes they even encouraged the fighting so they could take the Indians' _____________. | land |
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