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. Not exactly a trip to the beach, in the workshop this machine is a real Blast | Mod-U-Blast | 2. Newton and Einstein’s field of Science apparently has an international competition where the winners receive gold, silver and bronze medals. | Physics Olympics | 3. This beautiful piece of art appears to be “Watching” you as you walk through a busy part of the school’s main floor. | West Coast Watching | 4. Audience members need to be shown where to enter the theatre. Find the sign that would show them to the cheap seats that view the stage from the left side, and up high. | House Left Balcony Entrance | 5. You’re looking for a word that is both the name of a famous inventor and a church tower’s instrument. This word is displayed multiple times in the school, look for the most prominent one. | Bell Centre Logo | 6. The sandwiches, burgers and wraps here aren’t bad; find a location where these delicious snacks can be had. | Cafeteria | 7. On the side of a structure that needs a padlock or a combination, your clue is on the one that has the second letter of the alphabet and the square root of 114,921 as its designation. | side of locker B339 | 8. A lone standing oak has a great view of the student body; search around the base to find the next clue for this hobby. | Tree in courtyard | 9. Looking for a great elective to take next year? Go to this department, where the sign will tell you the French translation contains the word “Domestique”. | Home Economics | 10. Want your next clue? You can find it beside the pictures of your math and science teachers! | Staff Photos | 11. One of the teachers at Sullivan Heights is pretty gangsta. Find the sign that tells you which room is his! | Keepin it Gangster Sign | 12. If you want to see your classmates paintings or sculptures this is the place to go; “Chrysalis” will greet you as you descend down below. | Chrysalis mural in the Art Gallery | 13. He returned to the Sully family in 2014, see what kind of look our leader had about a decade before that! | Mr. Puri circa 2004 | 14. Where you can find a number of potential university options, look for the one school that is located east of the Prairies. | uWaterloo Sign | 15. This championship skier is celebrating on a wall somewhere in the school. You can find her by the rings on her chest. | Olympic Skiier upstairs |
Not exactly a trip to the beach, in the workshop this machine is a real Blast&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 15)
Newton and Einstein’s field of Science apparently has an international competition where the winners receive gold, silver and bronze medals.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 15)
This beautiful piece of art appears to be “Watching” you as you walk through a busy part of the school’s main floor.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 15)
Audience members need to be shown where to enter the theatre. Find the sign that would show them to the cheap seats that view the stage from the left side, and up high.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 15)
You’re looking for a word that is both the name of a famous inventor and a church tower’s instrument. This word is displayed multiple times in the school, look for the most prominent one.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 15)
The sandwiches, burgers and wraps here aren’t bad; find a location where these delicious snacks can be had.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 15)
On the side of a structure that needs a padlock or a combination, your clue is on the one that has the second letter of the alphabet and the square root of 114,921 as its designation.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 15)
A lone standing oak has a great view of the student body; search around the base to find the next clue for this hobby.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 15)
Looking for a great elective to take next year? Go to this department, where the sign will tell you the French translation contains the word “Domestique”.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 15)
Want your next clue? You can find it beside the pictures of your math and science teachers!&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 15)
One of the teachers at Sullivan Heights is pretty gangsta. Find the sign that tells you which room is his!&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 15)
If you want to see your classmates paintings or sculptures this is the place to go; “Chrysalis” will greet you as you descend down below.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 15)
He returned to the Sully family in 2014, see what kind of look our leader had about a decade before that!&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 15)
Where you can find a number of potential university options, look for the one school that is located east of the Prairies.&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 15)
This championship skier is celebrating on a wall somewhere in the school. You can find her by the rings on her chest.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 15)
