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. The library is a good source of information. Find the book Stellaluna. Find when it was published and subtract it from our current year. | 2012-1993=19 | 2. The bus you see takes you to and from school each day. The bus holds 30 gallons of diesel. Diesel costs $3.99. When Mr. Al filled up the bus today, he had to pay $79.80. How many gallons did he put in the bus? | $79.80/3.99=20 | 3. Miss Olivia has to know how many students bring their lunch each day. Today Miss Olivia said that 15% of the students brought their lunch. How many students brought their lunch today? | total students x 15% = Answer 115 students enrolled so 17 students brought their lunch. | 4. Two teachers you may have had, one in third and one fourth. Find the difference in height of the two. | height 1 - height 2= | 5. Now here is a tricky one. Miss Jessi and Miss Debbie you will see. You must be brave and ask them their ages. When you discover this, you must find the average. | age 1 + age 2 /2 = | 6. Prek, kdg, and 1st are on this end. If everyone is present, how many students will be here? | class 1 + class 2 + class 3= |
The library is a good source of information. Find the book Stellaluna. Find when it was published and subtract it from our current year.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 6)
The bus you see takes you to and from school each day. The bus holds 30 gallons of diesel. Diesel costs $3.99. When Mr. Al filled up the bus today, he had to pay $79.80. How many gallons did he put in the bus?&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 6)
Miss Olivia has to know how many students bring their lunch each day. Today Miss Olivia said that 15% of the students brought their lunch. How many students brought their lunch today?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 6)
Two teachers you may have had, one in third and one fourth. Find the difference in height of the two.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 6)
Now here is a tricky one. Miss Jessi and Miss Debbie you will see. You must be brave and ask them their ages. When you discover this, you must find the average.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 6)
Prek, kdg, and 1st are on this end. If everyone is present, how many students will be here?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 6)
