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. the lowest, driest, & hottest valley in the U.S. | Death Valley | 2. a lowland area bordering the Atlantic Ocean | Atlantic Costal Plains | 3. a river- connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean | St. Lawrence River | 4. Large, bowl-shaped landform surrounded by higher land. | Great Basin | 5. the capital of Massachusetts. | Boston, Massachusetts | 6. Largest city in the U.S., located on a harbor in New York State | New York City | 7. human-made waterway across NY-links Lake Erie with the Hudson River | Erie Canal | 8. a flat area in the middle of the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains | Great Plains | 9. oval shaped body of water between the coast of Mexico and Florida | Gulf of Mexico | 10. an imaginary line along the top of the Rocky Mountains. | Continental Divide | 11. the largest city in Philadelphia. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 12. five huge freshwater lakes | Great Lakes |
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