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. What is the name of the tube that allows food to travel down from your mouth to your stomach? | Oesophagus | 2. How many children currently in Puffins class? | 33 | 3. What is an acute angle? | angle smaller than 90 degrees | 4. What do we call it when water vapour turns into a cloud? | condensation | 5. What is a consumer? | an animal that eats a plant or another animal | 6. Name the 5 different types of teeth adult humans have. | incisors, canines, premolars, molars, wisdom | 7. Who is the current Prime Minster? | David Cameron | 8. What is 12 x 12? | 144 | 9. How many days in 5 weeks? | 35 | 10. Who wrote the Iron Man? | Ted Hughes | 11. Who wrote Bill’s New Frock? | Anne Fine | 12. What are the pieces of stone that make a Roman Mosaic called? | tesserae | 13. Which school did we sing ‘True Colours’ at? | St Osmund’s Middle School | 14. What is the name of the volcano that destroyed Pompeii? | Mt Vesuvius | 15. Name the two children in The Snow Queen. | Gerda and Kay | 16. What was the name of the little boy in the book ‘The Ice Palace’? | Ivan | 17. How many days in June? | 30 | 18. Who designed the flanimals? | Ricky Gervais | 19. I ate ¼ of my 20 sweets. How many did I eat? | 5 | 20. Name the school Council members in Year 4. | James and Jasper | 21. We were visited by two people who are Humanists. Do they believe in God? | No | 22. What type of words tell use where things are? E.G. under, over, beyond. | prepositions |
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