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 the name of the year 8 school trip we run to France and Belgium? | Battlefields | 2. Which famous scientist discovered gravity? | Newton | 3. What continent was the last Olympic games held on? | Asia | 4. Which artist drew up plans for a helicopter in the Renaissance period? | Leonardo Da Vinci | 5. What was the name of the unsinkable ship that sunk in 1912? | Titanic | 6. What was the name of the machine that was used to decode German messages during WW2? | Enigma | 7. How many years in a millennium? | 1000 | 8. In Flanders Fields was a famous poem written about what significant historical event? | First World War | 9. What do Buddhists believe happen when you die? | Reincarnation | 10. What is the name of the river which runs through and meets the sea in Great Yarmouth? | River Yare |
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