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. This place allows you to read and read and read and read. The cache is in the front on an empty shelf. | library | 2. If you want to search the world, here is a good place to start. Make sure the machines are turned on first. The cache will be sitting on the shelf. | lab | 3. This is one place you do not want to go if you have been misbehaving. The person in this office is very nice, but only if you are very nice. SHE loves kids. | Mrs. Gwinn's office | 4. Go home. Not your house. But your home at school. Your teacher misses you. | room 14 | 5. When you are going to sing, what door do you use? Go to the area and find a cache. | Music door | 6. Between the office and library is a special area. Go find a cache but be very quiet! | door to courtyard by office | 7. The custodians are wonderful people. Where do they make their home? The cache should be on the floor near there. | door by custodians office |
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