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. | 1.This person refused to give up a seat on the bus. That led to a 382 day bus boycott by black people in Montgomery, Alabama. | 2. 2. When this person was just a few weeks old, he and his mother were kidnapped. His mother was sold into slavery. He is also famous for peanuts. | George Washington Carver | 3. | 3.Because this person led so many slaves to freedom, she was sometimes called by the nickname Moses. | 4. | 4. One of 13 children, this person’s birth-name was Isabelle Baumfree. | 5. | 5. He was born a slave in 1881 and went on to go to college and founded the Tuskegee institute to train African Americans in farming. |
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