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. If you make a mess in the kitchen, this space you will use. A can is beneath, and there is your next clue! | Kitchen Garbage | 2. Upstairs, to your right, there's a bed that sleeps 2. Look in a window for your next clue. | Bedroom window | 3. If you were to sit and watch TV, behind this chair your next clue will be! | Lazboy | 4. When you come in our house, it's behind the door. This is where the umbrellas are stored. | umbrella box | 5. Time for dinner - let's cook something hot. Open the door slowly (but hot, it is not) | oven | 6. Two wee boys go here to sleep. Under the beds, you'll have to peek. | under boy bed |
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