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. Who wrote “Swanee River” “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Oh Susanna!”? | Stephen Foster | 2. What was one of the most popular learning techniques in the town schools? | spelling bee | 3. Who wrote “Leatherstocking” a story from “Hudson River Tales”? | James Fenimore Cooper | 4. What transcendentalist person wrote “Walden”? | Henry David Thoreau | 5. What was the name of the socialist community founded by Robert Owen? | New Harmony | 6. What did the American Temperance Union work to stop? | the consumption and sale of alcohol | 7. What did Horace Mann work to achieve? | Public Schools | 8. Which was the first state to outlaw the use of liquor? | Maine | 9. What did the Transcendentalists worship? | nature | 10. What society was organized in 1816 to distribute Bibles to Frontier families? | American Bible Society |
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