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 left of an animal or plant that lived long ago is called a ___________?Where do you read books? | Fossils | 2. A scientist who studies fossils of plants and animals of the past is called a __________? When you want your hands clean you go to this place | Paleontologist | 3. To rebuild something means to _______________ it. You can eat lunch here | Reconstruct | 4. When something was once alive but no longer exists means that they are _________. You go through these to get to the nurse | Extinct | 5. What word means "terrible lizard"? Last year you used these bathrooms | Dinosaur | 6. What is a "three-horned face" dinosaur called? We line up here for Library | Triceratops | 7. Where are three places paleontologists can find fossils? When you come inside from recess you go through these doors | Tar, Amber, Rock | 8. Meat eating dinosaurs have these kind of teeth? When you go out to recess you go through these doors. | Pointed | 9. Plant eating dinosaurs have these kind of teeth? Mrs. Schroeder's office | Flat | 10. What are the 4 steps to reconstructing fossils? The entrance to your classroom | 1.Dig for fossils 2.Clean the fossils 3. Reconstruct the small pieces 4.Reconstruct the whole dinosaur |
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