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. What is considered the oldest city in the U.S.? | St. Augustine,Florida | 2. What country founded St. Augustine? | Spain | 3. What was the first English settlement in America? | Roanoke | 4. Roanoke was started in 1585 by an expedition under whose authority? | An | 5. Englishman by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh | 6. Was Roanoke a permanent settlement? | No, it is known as the "lost colony." | 7. When was Jamestown founded and by whom? | 1607 by an English joint-stock company | 8. Was it a permanent settlement? | Yes, in spite of many ordeals including periods | 9. of starvation, Jamestown survived. |
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