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. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119. | 2. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million. | 3. It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. | 4. Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. | 5. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. | 6. Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry. | 7. To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow. | 8. U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages. | 9. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. | 10. 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. | 11. 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day. | 12. 75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North America! | 13. 80% of millionaires drive used cars. | 14. 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions! | 15. 85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women! | 16. 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting! | 17. 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation. | 18. A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds! | 19. A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes. | 20. A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%. | 21. About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash. | 22. Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold! | 23. America once issued a 5-cent bill! | 24. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year! | 25. Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food. |
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 25)
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 25)
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 25)
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 25)
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 25)
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 25)
To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 25)
U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 25)
Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 25)
20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 25)
7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 25)
75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North America!&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 25)
80% of millionaires drive used cars.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 25)
80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 25)
85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 25)
85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 25)
90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 25)
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 25)
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 25)
A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 25)
About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 25)
Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 25)
America once issued a 5-cent bill!&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 25)
Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year!&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 25)
Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.&choe=UTF-8
Question 25 (of 25)
