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 demands an answer, but asks no question? | A Telephone | 2. What is a Mummy’s favorite kind of music | Wrap | 3. What is found under bridges and on the Internet | Trolls | 4. What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in? | A computer keyboard | 5. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 25 years. Which room is safest for him? | The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead. | 6. This ancient invention allows people to see through walls, what is it? | A window. | 7. What kind of room has no doors or windows? | A mushroom | 8. A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor? | The doctor is the boy’s mother. | 9. Why is it against the law for a person living in Wisconsin to be buried in California? | He is alive | 10. Adam's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? | Adam | 11. Which one is correct? “Penguins flies” or “A Penguin flies” | Neither, penguins don’t fly | 12. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you? | Your name | 13. How many months have 28 days? | All 12 months have 28 days | 14. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have? | If you take two apples, than of course you have two | 15. A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How? | The woman is blind, and she is reading Braille. | 16. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch? | None, roosters can't lay eggs! | 17. Which side of the turkey has the most feathers? | The outside | 18. What is harder to catch the faster you run? | Your breath | 19. How can you tell the difference between dogs and trees? | By their bark | 20. What is brown and sticky? | A stick |
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