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. What does it mean to be a hunter-gatherer? | It means that people are nomads. A hunter-gatherer needs to migrate from place to place to hunt for animals and gather plants for food in order to survive. | 2. What is the "Younger Dryas?" | The Younger Dryas is a small ice age that swept through Europe and Asia. | 3. Who are the people that set humanity into the modern world and created the world's greatest revolution known as Farming? | The Natufians | 4. What effect did the Younger Dryas have on the Natufians? | The Younger Dryas left fertile land that allowed the Natufians to become one of the world's first farmers. | 5. Where on Earth is the "Fertile Crescent?" | The "Fertile Crescent's" relative location is today's Middle East Region. It spans from the countries of Israel to Iraq. | 6. What is the Middle East's geography like today? | When the Natufians settled in the Middle East Region it was a hunter-gatherers paradise with lush mountains. Today its geography includes the mountain ranges but they are desert like with very little waterfall. |
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