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. While being settled, Colorado was referred to as part of what area that made it hard to settle? (The Great…?) | American Desert | 2. What were the names of the two main Native American tribes living in Colorado before it was settled? | the Ute and the Arapaho | 3. What is the capitol of Colorado? | Denver | 4. What year was the capitol founded? | 1858 | 5. Who was the very first mayor of Denver? | John C. Moore | 6. What year was the Denver Pacific railroad built in Colorado? | 1870 | 7. Who was the city of Greeley named after? | Horace Greeley | 8. Who was the actual founder of Greeley? | Nathan Meeker | 9. What was the original name of Greeley? | Union Colony | 10. What year was Union Colony founded? | 1869 |
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