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. Describe what you might find at Jamestown Museum. | various | 2. What are the 4 types of musical instruments? | percussion, brass, woodwind, strings | 3. How many earthquakes a year cause damage? | 1 in 500 | 4. How far is the moon from the earth? | 238,900 miles | 5. Draw the weather map symbols for fog and haze. | = and OO | 6. Name the 3 longest rivers in the world. | Nile, Amazon, and Yantze (Chang) | 7. Name 3 reasons we need wetlands. | to clean water, store water, and for habitat | 8. What can be made from recycled plastics? | benches, bottles, various others | 9. There are many holidays on the calendar. What other or odd holiday is celebrated on Jan. 17th? | Kid Inventor Day | 10. What two different seals appear on the one dollar bill? | Treasury Seal and the Great Seal | 11. What source of energy is the most used type of energy in the United States? | oil |
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