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 live in a village outside of town. | 2. As a peasant, you belong to the group in society that works on the land. | 3. 90% of the population are peasants. | 4. You have never travelled far, not even to the next village which is 8km away. | 5. You speak in a language and accent that only people from your own area can understand. | 6. The church has taught you that the earth is flat. | 7. There is no education for you. | 8. You cannot read and write. | 9. The only books available are those the Monks in the nearby Abbey have copied by hand. | 10. The houses in town are cramped together in narrow streets. | 11. Many families keep animals. | 12. Messengers carry letters and town-criers shout out the latest news. | 13. A Lord owns the land on which your family works. | 14. You live in a single-story wooden house with two rooms. | 15. You call yourself a Christian. | 16. The Pope is your spiritual leader. | 17. Non-Christians and Jews should be persecuted. | 18. The Priest can make you go to church. | 19. You will be lucky to live past your thirties. | 20. You hardly ever have a bath. | 21. You sleep in the same room as the rest of your family. | 22. Conditions all around you are unsanitary. | 23. There are open street sewers. | 24. Household urinals drain into street sewers. | 25. Last time you went to town, a baker who had sold you underweight bread was in the stocks. | 26. A man who was found drunk had to walk through the streets wearing a barrel. | 27. Your village has its own church. | 28. The nearby cathedral has bones and relics that have belonged to saints – many people say these can work miracles. | 29. You have no idea why you get sick. |
You live in a village outside of town.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 29)
As a peasant, you belong to the group in society that works on the land.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 29)
90% of the population are peasants.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 29)
You have never travelled far, not even to the next village which is 8km away.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 29)
You speak in a language and accent that only people from your own area can understand.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 29)
The church has taught you that the earth is flat.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 29)
There is no education for you.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 29)
You cannot read and write.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 29)
The only books available are those the Monks in the nearby Abbey have copied by hand.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 29)
The houses in town are cramped together in narrow streets.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 29)
Many families keep animals.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 29)
Messengers carry letters and town-criers shout out the latest news.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 29)
A Lord owns the land on which your family works.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 29)
You live in a single-story wooden house with two rooms.&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 29)
You call yourself a Christian.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 29)
The Pope is your spiritual leader.&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 29)
Non-Christians and Jews should be persecuted.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 29)
The Priest can make you go to church.&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 29)
You will be lucky to live past your thirties.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 29)
You hardly ever have a bath.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 29)
You sleep in the same room as the rest of your family.&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 29)
Conditions all around you are unsanitary.&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 29)
There are open street sewers.&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 29)
Household urinals drain into street sewers.&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 29)
Last time you went to town, a baker who had sold you underweight bread was in the stocks.&choe=UTF-8
Question 25 (of 29)
A man who was found drunk had to walk through the streets wearing a barrel.&choe=UTF-8
Question 26 (of 29)
Your village has its own church.&choe=UTF-8
Question 27 (of 29)
The nearby cathedral has bones and relics that have belonged to saints – many people say these can work miracles.&choe=UTF-8
Question 28 (of 29)
You have no idea why you get sick.&choe=UTF-8
Question 29 (of 29)
