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. Name the presidents on Mount Rushmore | Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson | 2. What was the name of the first US settlement? | Roanoke Colony | 3. Who was the French and Indian war between? | French and British America | 4. What is the divisibility rule of 9? | Add up all the digits and if the sum is divisible by 9 then the number is divisible by 9 | 5. How does the president become elected? | Majority of electoral votes. | 6. What is a seven sided figure called? | Heptagon | 7. Who was the first child born in America? | Virginia Dare | 8. What is the name given to the landmass before the continents were created? | Beringia | 9. How many cups are in a gallon? | 16 | 10. What's the only number that is neither prime nor composite? | 1 | 11. What are the canals called that raise and lower the water level of the Great Lakes? | Soo Locks | 12. KAZAM is an example of what type of figurative language? | Onomatopoeia |
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