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. Name two novels by Ernest Hemingway | The old man and the sea and A farewell to Arms | 2. Who wrote Lord of the Flies and what is the setting2 | William Golding and a tropical island2 | 3. What is the nature of the conflict in To Kill a Mockingbird3 | A black man is charged with the rape of a white woman3 | 4. How can you find and download an ebook by Charles Dickens from your library's collection4 | Search for Dickens, check ebooks and press search. The ebooks will be displayed on the right.You can download the book by clicking on the ebooks title4 | 5. How many titles about vampires does your library own5 | 44 titles5 |
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