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's better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing? | Nothing | 2. To cross the water I'm the way, For water I'm above; I touch it not, and truth to say,I neither swim nor move. What am I? | A bridge | 3. What gets wetter as it dries? | A towel | 4. What has to be broken before you can use it? | An egg | 5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? | Footsteps | 6. It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. | Cabbage | 7. What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes? | A hole | 8. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? | Your name | 9. What goes up but never goes down? | Your age | 10. What has a bottom at his top? | Legs |
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