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. In what two ways did Isaac Newton almost permanently damage his eyes? | He stuck a needle in one eye and he stared at the sun for a long period. | 2. What curious habit did Karl Scheele have which probably cost him his life? | He used to taste the chemicals he worked with, many of which were toxic. | 3. Why are Marie Curie's papers from the 1890s too dangerous to touch? | They are radioactive. | 4. How did Marie and Paul Curie die? | Marie died of leukaemia and Paul was run over by a carriage in the street in Paris. | 5. Why do you suppose Eugene Shoemaker is the only person who has been honoured by having his ashes spread on the moon? | Because he spent a good deal of his life investigating craters on the moon. |
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