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. This god was mad at the Greeks for kidnapping a priestess, so he sent the plague | Apollo | 2. This man wanted to invade Troy for its land, not to get Helen back | Agamemnon | 3. This man was the greatest warrior of Troy and his weakness was keeping his reputation | Hector | 4. Palamedes' dad has his revenge on the Greeks for killing his son by doing this | Telling Greek women that their husbands cheated | 5. This sea separates Greece from Turkey | Aegean | 6. This man was the king of Troy | Priam | 7. This man was the one who thought to fill a horse with soldiers to sneak into Troy | Odysseus | 8. Achillies says he won't fight when this is taken from him | His handmaiden, Briseis | 9. Achillies explodes in anger and joins the war again when this happens | Patroclus is killed | 10. Patroclus is mistaken for Achilles when he takes this from Achilles | Achillies' armour | 11. What disrespectful thing does Achilles do after he kills Hector | Drags his body around Troy |
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