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. Allison is reading a book with 32 chapters. She has 8 days to read it. She wants to read the same number of chapters each day. How many chapters should she read each day? | 4chapters | 2. Matt has 40 super bouncy balls to put in 10 bags. He puts the same number in each bag. What multiplication fact can you use to find the number of balls in each bag? | 10times4equals40 | 3. Justyn plays a card game. He gives the same number of cards to each of 4 players. If there are 20 cards in all, how many cards does each player get? | 5cards | 4. Katie and Lauren are going camping with 10 of their friends. They packed 60 sandwiches. How many sandwiches do Katie, Lauren, and their friends eat each? | 5sandwiches | 5. Garret has 75 apple slices that he distributes to 15 students in his gymnastics class. How many slices does each student get? | 5slices | 6. Bianca bought 36 pencils to give to her friends before the first day of school. If each friend received 6 pencils, how many friends did Bianca buy pencils for? | 4friends | 7. Bryan is bundling newspapers. He has 66 newspapers and puts 6 newspapers in each bundle. How many bundles does Bryan make? | 11bundles | 8. Jodi has 20 quarters. She wants to buy postcards to mail to her friends. Each postcard costs 2 quarters. How many postcards can she buy? | 10 postcards | 9. Peyton has 36 photos. Her album can fit 9 photos per page. How many pages will she need to use? | 4pages | 10. There are 3 vans taking 27 students on a field trip. If each van has the same number of students, how many students are on each van? | 9students | 11. Macie’s 6 cats had a total of 24 kittens. If each cat had the same size litter, how many kittens did each cat have? | 4kittens | 12. Ryan picked 48 flowers to share equally among his 6 sisters. How many flowers did each sister get? | 8flowers | 13. An astronaut collected 56 moon rocks. She has 7 bags to put them in. If the same number of rocks were placed in each bag, how many rocks were there in each bag. | 8moonrocks | 14. Three monkeys at the zoo must evenly share 24 bananas. How many bananas did each monkey get? | 8bananas |
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