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. How many ways can you spell HEART? | 16 | 2. Decode this Valentine message! | Boys and girls enjoy sharing cards and candy with their friends and family on Valentine’s Day | 3. Hink Pinks! Find the rhyming words. The number of syllables in each word in the answer is shown in parentheses. | Heart mart, scarred card, dandy candy, stupid Cupid, Funny Honey, serenade parade | 4. Use the letters in the word "Valentine" to make words consisting of two or more letters each. | answers vary | 5. Estimate the number of hearts, laid end to end, that would equal 1 foot. Now use a ruler to find out how many it really takes. | answers vary | 6. Estimate how many hearts wide the top of your desk is. Now find out how many it really takes. | answers vary | 7. How many different ways can you find to group your hearts? | answers vary | 8. Make a heart tower. How many hearts did you stack before the tower fell? | answers vary | 9. Stack hearts on your partner's finger. How many hearts can you stack before it falls over? | answers vary | 10. Make a circle graph to show the percentage of each color in your candy hearts box. | answers vary | 11. Complete the "Valentine Card Puzzle". | Answers vary | 12. Complete the "Valentine Crossword". | answers vary |
How many ways can you spell HEART?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 12)
Decode this Valentine message!&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 12)
Hink Pinks! Find the rhyming words. The number of syllables in each word in the answer is shown in parentheses.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 12)
Use the letters in the word "Valentine" to make words consisting of two or more letters each.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 12)
Estimate the number of hearts, laid end to end, that would equal 1 foot. Now use a ruler to find out how many it really takes. &choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 12)
Estimate how many hearts wide the top of your desk is. Now find out how many it really takes.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 12)
How many different ways can you find to group your hearts?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 12)
Make a heart tower. How many hearts did you stack before the tower fell?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 12)
Stack hearts on your partner's finger. How many hearts can you stack before it falls over?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 12)
Make a circle graph to show the percentage of each color in your candy hearts box.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 12)
Complete the "Valentine Card Puzzle".&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 12)
Complete the "Valentine Crossword".&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 12)
