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. How can we engage students whose entire lifespan has been in the new age of technology? | By reaching out to the technology that they have been immersed in. | 2. Where will we find the time to learn all these new things and how do we know if it will be worth it? | We make the time because it is vital and we reach out to the groundbreakers who have been doing much of the groundwork ahead of us. | 3. Will everything we attempt be a success? | Not necessarily, positive growth takes time. | 4. What grabs a student’s attention? | Usually something associated with cool things like IPHONES, IPADs, and IPODs. | 5. Where are good places to get started? | Technology trainings, conferences and the people who have been to them. |
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