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. Hello and welcome to your 50th Birthday Scavenger Hunt! Your job is to find the QR codes which have been placed inside a colorful envelope hidden around the house. Scan each QR code into your mobile device using the app "i-nigma" to receive a riddle to where the next QR code is hidden. Good luck! I am a basket, but do not carry me. I am a a net but you cannot catch anything with me. You can put a ball in me but I'm not used for soccer. What am I? | 1st - Basketball Hoop Outside | 2. Congratulations for finding your second clue! I have many keys, that do not open anything. I have many notes but you can't see them. What am I? | 2nd - Piano Downstairs | 3. I belong to you and I am used everyday. If you turn me left, I will take you left. If you turn me right, I will take you right. If you press me in my middle I will make sound, but I'm not an instrument. What am I? | 3rd - Steering Wheel of Dad's Car | 4. Look in a place that keeps things cool, if you don't know what I mean then you're a fool. | 4th - Refrigerator | 5. Some take me in the morning, others take me in the evening. But one thing you should know, that when I am taken, I do not go. | 5th - Shower (Cara and Mom's) |
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