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. Every hour at work, you are able to ship out the same number of packages. If in the 2nd hour of work, you have shipped out 12 packages, and by the 5th hour, you have shipped out 30 packages, what is the rate at which you ship out packages? | 6 packages/hour | 2. Every hour, your sister can make the same number of socks. If in the 3rd hour of work, she has made 6 pairs of socks, and by the 5th hour, she has made 10 pairs of socks, what is the rate at which she made the socks? | 2 pairs of socks per hour | 3. Every hour, a runner is able to run the same number of miles. If on his 3rd hour of running he has gone 15 miles, and on his 5th hour of running he has gone 25 miles, what is the rate at which he runs? | 5 miles per hour | 4. Every hour at work, you are able to pick the same number of apples. If in the 2nd hour of work, you have picked 220 apples, and by the 4th hour, you have picked 440 apples, what is the rate at which you pick the apples? | 110 apples per hour | 5. Every hour, John is able to bike the same number of kilometers. If on his 2nd hour of biking he has gone 40 kilometers, and on his 5th hour of biking he has gone 100 kilometers, what is the rate at which he bikes? | 20 km/hr | 6. A climber is on a hike. After 2 hours he is at an altitude of 400 feet. After 6 hours, he is at an altitude of 700 feet. What is the average rate of change? | 75 ft/hr | 7. A scuba diver is 30 feet below the surface of the water 10 seconds after he entered the water and 100 feet below the surface after 40 seconds. What is the scuba divers rate of change? | 7/3 feet per second | 8. A rocket is 20 miles above the earth in 30 seconds and 15 miles above the earth in 2.5 minutes. What is the rockets rate of change in miles per second? What about miles per minute. | -5/2 miles per minute | 9. A teacher weighed 145 lbs in 1986 and weighs 190 lbs in 2007. What was the rate of change in weight? | 15/7 lbs/yr | 10. Over the last 50 years, the average temperature has increased by 2.5 degrees worldwide (I made this up). What is the rate of change in worldwide temperatures per year? | 1/20 degrees per year | 11. Michael started a checking account with $500. After 4 weeks, he had $300 dollars, and after 9 weeks, he had $50. What is the rate of change of money in his checking account per week? | -50 dollars per week | 12. A plane left Chicago at 8:00 A.M. At 1: P.M., the plane landed in Los Angeles, which is 1500 miles away. What was the average speed of the plane for the trip? | 300 mi/hr | 13. After 30 baseball games, A-Rod had 25 hits. If after 100 games he had 80 hits, what is his average hits per baseball game. | 11/14 hits per game |
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