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. Thinking of changing your career? | rhetorical question | 2. But Loraine found out that working as a gardener was not a bed of roses. | pun | 3. Beautiful Betty bares all. | alliteration | 4. Local yobs hound elderly residents. | emotive language | 5. Sea, sand and sun for all! | alliteration and explanation | 6. "100% of our students passed there exams," said college principle. | explanation | 7. What else have you go to do with your time? | rhetorical question | 8. Removing blackberry bushes - a thorny issue for local councils | alliteration | 9. Helpless: Babies left in NHS waiting rooms | emotive language | 10. It's amazing! | explanation | 11. "it's a disgrace", said Andy Hall of Brighton | Quotation and emotive language |
Thinking of changing your career?&choe=UTF-8
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But Loraine found out that working as a gardener was not a bed of roses.&choe=UTF-8
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Beautiful Betty bares all.&choe=UTF-8
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Local yobs hound elderly residents.&choe=UTF-8
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Sea, sand and sun for all!&choe=UTF-8
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"100% of our students passed there exams," said college principle.&choe=UTF-8
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What else have you go to do with your time?&choe=UTF-8
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Removing blackberry bushes - a thorny issue for local councils&choe=UTF-8
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Helpless: Babies left in NHS waiting rooms&choe=UTF-8
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It's amazing!&choe=UTF-8
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"it's a disgrace", said Andy Hall of Brighton&choe=UTF-8
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