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. How do people learn about dinosaurs? | By studying fossils | 2. What does a carnivore eat? | meat | 3. Did people hunt dinosaurs long ago? | no | 4. An extinct reptile that lived long ago is called…? | dinosaur | 5. What is a paleontologist? | a scientist that studies fossils to learn about prehistoric life | 6. What is an animal's change in behavior to survive in its habitat called? | adaptation | 7. Give examples of how you know a dinosaur is an herbivore. | flat teeth, walked on four legs, etc. | 8. Put the food chain in order: rabbit, sun, grass, coyote | sun, grass, rabbit, coyote | 9. How did earth look different during the time the dinosaurs were alive? | It was wetter and more like a rainforest | 10. Can dinosaurs live in the ocean? | no because dinosaurs were reptiles that lived on land. | 11. What is the name for an animal that is eaten by another animal? | prey | 12. If a living thing dies out and no more are left on Earth, what is that called? | extinction |
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