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.
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1. The female butterfly lays eggs on a leaf. | 2. The caterpillar hatches out of the egg. | 3. The caterpillar eats a lot of leaves and as it grows it sheds its skin several times. | 4. After it has she'd its skin for the last time it turns into a chrysalis and it is attached to a leaf. | 5. After 2 weeks a metamorphosis takes place and it emerges as a butterfly. | 6. The butterfly pumps fluid into its wings and flies away to find nectar. | 7. Soon the butterfly will be ready to lay eggs and begin the life cycle again. |
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