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 men got lost in the wilderness and ____ to death. | starved | 2. My lawn died, so we bought ______ to replace it so we had a lawn again. | sod | 3. When Laura Ingalls was young, she lived in the side of a hill. This type of house is called a _____. | dugout | 4. I wrote a book and it was published, so I am now a published _____. | author | 5. My ancestors ______ in New York after traveling from Ireland. | settled | 6. If you are in orchestra, you may play the _______, which is another name for violin. | fiddle | 7. A type of land that has extremely tall grass and few trees is called a ______. | prairie | 8. You may get stuck in a ____________ during the winter. | blizzard |
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