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. Name the two ways you can divide the world into hemispheres. | North and South, East and West | 2. How many continents are there? | Seven | 3. Write down the name of the 4 oceans in the world. | Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic | 4. What is the name for a round model of the Earth? | a globe | 5. What is the name of the capital city in our state? | Des Moines | 6. What is the vocabulary word for a person who helps settle a new land? | pioneer | 7. Who is someone in a person's family who lived a long time ago? | ancestor | 8. What is the vocabulary word for a person who starts a community, building, or develops land? | founder | 9. What is the name of the invisible line that is halfway between the North and South poles? | equator | 10. Name the four cardinal directions. | North, East, South, West | 11. Write down the name of our president. | Barack Obama | 12. The number of people in a community is called what? | Its population |
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