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. A children's verse reads: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Approximately how many "whacks" did the Bordens actually receive in total? | 30 | 2. Who did the police intially suspect was the murderer?2 | A Portuguese laborer who had been denied his wages. | 3. What had tipped off police that Lizzie may have been responsible for her parents' grizzly murder?3 | Her inconsistent accounts of her actions on the day of the murder, reports of arguing with her parents, and an attempt to purchase poison the day before the murder. | 4. What item(s) was Lizzie seen burning several days after the murder of her parents?4 | A dress. | 5. According to prosecutors in the Borden murder trial, what possible motive did Lizzie have for killing her parents?5 | Mr. Borden was planning to change his will to leave the bulk of the estate to his wife, with only a small sum going to each daughter. | 6. How long did it take the jury to return a verdict of "not guilty" on all three counts?6 | One hour | 7. True or False; Lizzie, her father and her stepmother are all buried at the Borden grave site?7 | True | 8. True or False; After Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted for the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in 1893, no suspect was ever tried for the crime.8 | True |
A children's verse reads: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Approximately how many "whacks" did the Bordens actually receive in total?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 8)
Who did the police intially suspect was the murderer?2&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 8)
What had tipped off police that Lizzie may have been responsible for her parents' grizzly murder?3&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 8)
What item(s) was Lizzie seen burning several days after the murder of her parents?4&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 8)
According to prosecutors in the Borden murder trial, what possible motive did Lizzie have for killing her parents?5&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 8)
How long did it take the jury to return a verdict of "not guilty" on all three counts?6&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 8)
True or False; Lizzie, her father and her stepmother are all buried at the Borden grave site?7&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 8)
True or False; After Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted for the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in 1893, no suspect was ever tried for the crime.8&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 8)
