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 was the first spacecraft in space, and what country launched it? | Sputnik, Russia | 2. What was the first U.S. satellite? | Explorer 1 | 3. Who was aboard Sputnik 5? | two dogs, Belka and Strelka | 4. Who was the first person in space? | Yuri Gugarin | 5. Who was the first American in space in 1961? | Alan Shepard | 6. What was the mission of Mercury-Atlas 6? | to place the first person in orbit | 7. What was the first mission to land on the moon? | Luna 9 | 8. Why is the Apollo 11 mission important? | First people on the moon | 9. What was the purpose of Skylab? | so people could stay in space for extended periods of time | 10. Why didn’t space shuttle Columbia return to Earth? | It broke apart in Earth’s atmosphere when a piece of foam broke away and made a hole in the shield. | 11. How many crew members died aboard space shuttle Challenger? | 7 | 12. Where did space shuttle Discovery go? | to the ISS | 13. How many astronauts were aboard Mars Pathfinder? | 0 | 14. Who was the first space tourist? | Dennis Tito | 15. What did the Galileo missions study? | Jupiter and its moons | 16. What space telescope was launched to find new planets? | Kepler | 17. How big is the International Space Station? | the size of a football field | 18. What dangerous thing happened during Alexei Lenov's spacewalk? | His space suit inflated. |
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How many astronauts were aboard Mars Pathfinder?&choe=UTF-8
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What space telescope was launched to find new planets?&choe=UTF-8
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What dangerous thing happened during Alexei Lenov's spacewalk?&choe=UTF-8
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