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. Name three things the pharaoh had the power to do in ancient Egypt. | 2. Name 3 pharaohs from Ancient Egypt. | 3. What did the Egyptians believe about the afterlife and how did they ensure a person made it to the afterlife? | 4. Record 5 facts about Ancient Greece or Rome. | 5. In relation to rivers, explain what the following are: a meander, the source, a delta. | 6. Name 3 endangered species. | 7. Write the names of 3 natural disasters which have occurred in the last 10 years and were they have occurred. | 8. Name Henry VIII’s 6 wives and describe their fate. | 9. Name 3 major changes that occurred in the Renaissance. | 10. Name a significant individual from the Renaissance and write 3 interesting facts about this individual and their role/achievements. | 11. Name as many countries in North and South America that you can. | 12. Consider a geographical issue facing Asia, briefly write about the cause, effect and a possible strategy to deal with this problem. | 13. How much of Antarctica is made up of ice? | 14. Draw the Antarctic food web. | 15. Record 3 key events that have led to Indigenous people in Australia gaining more land/civil rights and briefly explain what happened. | 16. What does NSDAP stand for? | 17. How were the Jews persecuted in Germany in WWII? | 18. How did Hitler gain power? | 19. What does the word Reichstag mean? | 20. What does the term anti-Semitism mean? | 21. Name our last 4 Prime Ministers. | 22. What do the colours on the Aboriginal flag represent? | 23. What animals appear on Australia’s national emblem? | 24. What year did the First Fleet arrive? | 25. In what year did Federation occur? |
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