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.
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1. What does URL stand for? | Uniform Resource Locator | 2. www.cnn.com is an example of a | 2domain name2 | 3. The _______is a gigantic computer network that connects computers across the world. | 3Internet3 | 4. What would the extension .gov tell you about a web site? | 4It is a government agency4 | 5. What is Netiquette? | 5good manners online5 | 6. Describe spam? | 6Is electronic junk mail6 | 7. What is a search engine? | 7A special kind of web site that lets you search for other web pages.7 | 8. Is Internet explorer a search engine? | 8no8 | 9. What kind of search uses keywords and special symbols? | 9Boolean9 | 10. What is the subpage name in a web address is usually separated from the domain name by which symbol? | 10/10 | 11. What does the symbol @ represent? | 11at11 | 12. To find a web page which includes one keyword but not another, use this Boolean expression (give an example)? | 12cats not dogs12 | 13. A good Web site is? | 13relevant, reliable, recent and verifiable13 |
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