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 short story “Woman Hollering Creek” is set in which two countries? Give your answer to Dr. Sweeley’s assistant and get QR2. | “Mexico and the United States” | 2. Who is Lady Bracknell’s niece in the play The Importance of Being Earnest? Give your answer to the other English teacher with a student teacher this semester to get QR3. | “Gwendolyn Fairfax” | 3. Who was the ruler of England during Shakespeare’s time? Give your answer to the English teacher whose child shares the playwright’s Christian name and get QR4. | “Queen Elizabeth” | 4. Which supplemental reading book for Hamlet reversed the gender roles and had the heroine trying to find the truth about her mother’s death? Give your answer to the teacher whose classroom is filled with children’s toys and get QR 5. | Sacrament of Lies | 5. In the novel The Kite Runner, what is the true relationship between Amir and Hassan? Be the first team back to Mrs. Gallagher’s room with the correct response to win. | “brothers” |
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