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. When is Christmas celebrated? | Christmas is celebrated from December 16th to January 6th. | 2. Who receives and gives gifts on January 6th? | Children receive gifts from Los Reyes Magos (The Three Wise Men) | 3. How do pinata’s look normally? | Pinata’s are usually decorated papier-mache objects filled with sweets and hung from a ceiling or typically a tree It’s usually decorated as a ball with seven peaks around it. They represent The Seven Deadly Sins. | 4. How is “Merry Christmas" said in Mexico? | Feliz Navidad | 5. What happens if you find the figurine of Baby Jesus in the Rosca? | If you find the figurine, you become the godparent of Jesus and must host and invite everyone to present a new celebration on February 2, Candelaria (Candle Mass Day). And you must also buy a new Ropon (dress) for the Baby Jesus of the Nativity Scene. | 6. When is Mexico Epiphany? | On January 6th. | 7. What is Candelaria? | It is the day when Christians remember when jesus was taken to the temple as a baby and officially named. Is the end of of the Mexican celebrations. | 8. What goes on in a Posada and when are they celebrated? | Posada’s are celebrated 9 days before Christmas and songs, prayers, and candels are taken in the event where we accompany the Peregrinos (“Joseph and Mary”) in their search for shelter. |
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