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. Isis was the wife of Osiris and had great magical powers. She was a goddess of mothers and of health and healing and is usually shown seated holding her baby son Horus on her lap. Her headdress consists of a moon disk supported by cow horns. The cow was her sacred animal. | ISIS | 2. Osiris ruled as the great god and kind of the Underworld. Many legends are told about him he was killed and gained new life, so many prayers are made to him in behalf of the mummified dead. Osiris figures are found in tombs and they show the God in the form of a mummy wearing a crown with his feathers and the royal cobra. His arms are held one above the other, or crossed over the chest; he holds a crook in one hand and a flail in the other - both items are symbols of royalty. | OSIRIS | 3. Amun-Ra was the national supreme god of Egypt. People believed that he had created heaven and earth and all the gods and that he could appear in many forms. Statues of Amun-Ra show him as a man, seated on a throne or standing, wearing a crown with the sun disk and feathers, sometimes holding a scepter. | AMUN-RA | 4. Hathor was the goddess of beauty, love, and joy. She has the body of a woman and the head of a cow with a disk between the horns. The cow was sacred in her name. | HATHOR | 5. Anubis had the head of a jackal and was the god of embalming and cemeteries. He also guided the mummy to Osiris and presided over the weighing of the heart. Figures of Anubis are commonly placed into to tombs. His sacred animal was the jackal. | ANUBIS | 6. Nephthys was the sister of Isis and guarded the dead: she often is shown inside the tomb. Her spread wings seem to signify all-embracing protection. | NEPHTHYS | 7. Thoth was the scribe of the gods and was honored as the inventor of numbers and measurer of time. In the Judgment Hall of Osiris, the ibis-headed god recorded the weight of the heart, reported to him by a baboon who sat on top of the scale. His sacred animals where the baboon and the ibis. | THOTH | 8. Ra was also creator of gods and men. He was the sun god and appeared as the rising as well as the setting sun. During the night, he fought an army of monsters of darkness, fog, and clouds led by Apepi, the serpent. He always won the battle by morning and appeared again at dawn. His figures are that of a man with the head of falcon; on his head are the sun disk and the serpent Uraeus. | RA | 9. Bastet represented the heat of the sun that made things grow. She was the protector of women and the family and a goddess of pleasure, dancing, and music. She has the body of a woman and the head of a cat, and holds a basket in her left hand, a percussion instrument, the systrum, in her right. Her sacred animal was the cat. | BASTET | 10. Set it is a monster-like beast with a head similar to that of a hyena. He was the brother and murderer of Osiris, and a god of foreign people and lands. | SET | 11. Bes was a good little monster god, who loved music, dance and games, and protected all children. In turn, children loved him and kept figures of him around the home. He had horns and big ears. | BES | 12. Maat was the daughter of Ra and signified law, order, and truth. Her statues usually show her sitting, with the feather as emblem of law and truth on her head. She always appears in human form. | MAAT |
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