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.
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1. is the only state that grows coffee. | Hawaii | 2. is popularly known as the Lone Star State. | Texas | 3. nearly 75% of this place covered by forest. | West Virginia | 4. the town of Deming is known for its annual duck races | the town of Deming is known for its annual duck races. | 5. workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. | Alabama | 6. more turkeys are raised in this any than any other state in the United States. | California | 7. - Ermal Fraze invented the pop-top can in Kettering. | Ohio | 8. the first American class chess tournament was held in New York in 1843 | New York | 9. the Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the worlds finest racehorses. | Kentucky | 10. - in 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore. | Maryland |
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