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. Where are Viet Nam veterans honored and remembered? | Viet Nam Veteran's Memorial Wall | 2. What is the tallest building in D.C.? | Washington Monument | 3. Where can you learn about Auschwitz, Hitler, and the treatment of the Jews? | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | 4. Where might you see where the Senate and House of Representatives meet? You may also see the flag you will receive from your congressman. | United States Capitol | 5. Where must you go to find Dorothy's ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz? | The Museum of American History (Smithsonian) | 6. Where is one of the world's largest McDonald's located? | The Museum of Air and Space (Smithsonian) | 7. Where will you sit in the very same room as President Lincoln was when he was shot? | Ford's Theater | 8. In what solemn place will you witness the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? | Arlington National Cemetery | 9. Where will you meet Xiang and Tian Tian, the giant pandas? | The National Zoo | 10. Where is Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president, honored in larger-than-life form? | The Jefferson Memorial | 11. In what town might you be scared out of your wits by a ghost or some other apparition? | Alexandria (walking ghost tour) | 12. Statues of battle weary soldiers trudging across a field - where might you see that? | Korean War Memorial | 13. Where will you need to go in order to pose with President and Mrs. Obama or with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lopez? | Madame Toussaud's Wax Museum |
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