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. 1) Who is Britain's most famous Witch Hunter? | Mathew Hopkins. | 2. 2) Name three ingredients for Hubby's Bump-off brew? | The skull of a robber who's been beheaded, The nails from a dead mans hand, A baby's brain, Hair, Worms, Guts and Poison Herbs. | 3. 3) How many people gathered to see the crazed nuns? | 300 people. | 4. 4) How many people were hanged as witches in Suffolk, Essex and East Anglia? | 230 people. | 5. 5) What was the name of the parish priest in Loudun, France who wrote some very nasty things to Cardinal Richelieu? | Farther Urbain Grandier. |
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