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. question | answer Walk QUIETLY through the halls and count the number of classrooms this year (upstairs and down). Write your answer on your answer sheet. Look at the computer room door downstairs for your next clue! | 2. | 3. question2 | answer2 What is outside on the bench in the backyard? Write your answer on your sheet! You will find your next clue there. | 4. | 5. question3 | answer3 Inside in Mrs. Pitz's classroom there is a clue on the blackboard. Read it and do what it says. Write how many you did in 30 seconds. Read where to go next. | 6. | 7. question4 | answer4 Do one lap outside the rink outside. After you have done your lap, there is a clue on the door there. Write the secret word in the slot for question 4 on your answer sheet. | 8. | 9. question5 | answer5 Go to Mrs. Pitz's classroom again - write down the definition of integrity on your sheet. You next clue is there! | 10. Find a treasure behind the backstop in the southwest corner of the back school ground. What was it? Put that on your sheet. | secret | 11. | 12. question6 | answer6 List what happened in the following dates that are found on page 199 of your social studies text book! 1976, 1914, 1918, 1980, 1939, 1945 | 13. (this should take you a while to finish these :) | Lots! |
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