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 the colonies that played role in the development of American Impressionism. Hint the exhibit is arranged by colonies | New York, Cos Cob, Old Lyme, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Rockport, Philadelphia, New Hope, Taos, California | 2. | 3. Don't turn your head like the woman in this painting! Although this artist was Canadian born he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy. Name the artist and the woman in the painting. How are they related to each other | George Agnew Reid, Mary Heister Reid-married | 4. | 5. Name two famous artists that spent the majority of their careers in Europe. These artist did not study at an American colony. Hint Man Reading is the name of one of the artists's works. | John Singer Sargent, Mary Stevenson Cassatt | 6. | 7. This New York artist was dedicated to painting in plein air. He was quoted as saying "I don't believe in making sketches and then painting your landscapes in your studio. You must be right under the sky". Who is this New York artist and what does in plein air mean? | William Merritt Chase, to paint outside | 8. | 9. This still life by a Pennsylvania artist is a bright bouquet however after reading the information card one feels less than cheery, why? Who is the artist and what is the name of the painting? | the artist died at the age of 45 of pneumonia, Cora Smalley Brooks, The Flowers of Spring |
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