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 next QR code will be found on an object a student might use during a fine motor break | red ball | 2. The next QR code will be found behind the red math fluency chart in the room where students do their programs | rm 101 red math chart | 3. The next QR code will be found where students played deal or no deal and other fun games in the afternoon | smart board | 4. The next QR code will be found by some creatures that Percy Jackson can talk to, but you and I cannot | fish tank | 5. The next QR code will be found inside a stretchy orange object that students can use during a fine motor break | body sock | 6. The next QR code will be found under an orange cat | Garfield sheet rm 103 | 7. The next QR code will be found on a place where high school students might leave their backpacks and books | locker | 8. The next QR code will be found by a printer in the room where students do their programs | printer in 101 | 9. The next QR code will be found at the bottom of a stairwell | middle stairwell | 10. The next QR code will be found where high school students might go when they are sick | nurses office | 11. You have nearly completed your quest! to find the golden cup walk towards the classrooms and search the open classroom on the right side of the hallway | rm102 |
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