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. You know a lot about this chap but here are some things that are new; he’s the person who created Thanksgiving Day, and he wore a size 14 shoe | Abe | 2. Adult males of this species can reach 13 feet, and weight 1000 pounds; ours weighs quite a bit more that that; we use it to reach the PE grounds | Gator | 3. One fourth of the bones in your body are located in your two feet. When you use this room in the building, these bones help make your mission complete | Fitness lab | 4. You might go here for help with your uvula, your phalanges, or your lumbar, and if you need help with your funny bone, this place is one of the best, by far | Nurse’s office | 5. Remember the old days, when you opened this door cigarette smoke would fill up the hall? Now it’s a place where we sit and relax and dream about the days of Pall Mall | Lounge | 6. The majority of our music students are in this classroom once a day. Studies and our observations show it helps to keep the failing grades away | Band room | 7. Mr. Slate is the boss who oversees Betty, Wilma, and Fred. If you’re looking for him he’s probably hiding here sleeping, but it’s not his bed | Computer lab | 8. One of our favorite dishes, besides White Castle, is Alena’s Cuppa Cuppa appetizer. She may cook it here for a get together but watch out! It’s not a weight minimizer | Oven in Kim’s room | 9. Mommy packs her child’s lunches with hugs and TLC. If they’re not left in the locker, they’re thrown in here to become snacks for the gulls of the sea | Garbage in cafeteria | 10. If you need to tune this instrument make sure you have your phone. All you need to do is start to place a call so you can use the dial tone | Guitar | 11. Mom, I forgot my lunch, my PE clothes, and baseball bat, my permission slip, my retainer, and I need you to bring them STAT | Student phone | 12. This piece of junk sometimes works but mostly it does not. It can sense when it’s an emergency and it breaks down on the spot | Copy machine | 13. Take a moment to reflect on this room, give a deep breath, and a sigh. Now jump for joy and yell out loud “GOOD LUCK TO SYCAMORE HIGH!!” | 214 | 14. You know those moments when you can’t take it anymore and you send the kid out of class? This is where the student comes to continue being a pain in the …. (did you write a pass?) | ISS room | 15. Remember that time when some kids broke in and left us a little present in a plastic bag? This is the place where Sarah and Bob found the treat which made us all want to vomit and gag | Microwave |
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