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. When was Queen Victoria born | 24th May 1819 | 2. What was Queen Victoria's first name2 | Alexandrina | 3. When did Queen Victoria become Queen3 | 20th June 1837 | 4. Who did Queen Victoria marry and when4 | Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha on 10th February 1840 | 5. How many children did Queen Victoria have5 | 9 children | 6. How long did Queen Victoria reign6 | 63 years 7 months and 2 days | 7. What three Christmas traditions started in the Victorian times7 | Christmas cards, Christmas trees and Christmas crackers | 8. Lewis Carrol was a famous Victorian. Which book did he write8 | Alice in Wonderland | 9. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent in 18769 | The telephone | 10. Who was the author of Oliver Twist10 | Charles Dickens | 11. Which form of transport became popular during the Victorian Times11 | The steam train | 12. Two people invented the light bulb, what were their names12 | Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan | 13. Where did poor children go to school13 | charity schools or Dame schools | 14. What subjects did Victorian children study14 | Reading, writing and arithmetic or the 3 Rs | 15. What did Victorian children write on in school15 | slates or blackboards | 16. What was the workhouse16 | A place where poor people who had no job or home lived | 17. Who was Florence Nightingale17 | A nurse | 18. Which war did she help soldiers in18 | The Crimean War | 19. What was Florence Nightingale's nickname19 | The Lady of the Lamp |
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