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. What is the word for a machine that plays movies on small discs? | a DVD player | 2. What is the word for a small machine that explains the meanings of words or translates them into another language? | an electronic dictionary | 3. What is the word for a small electronic machine for listening to music? | an MP3 player | 4. What is the word for a small machine for doing mathematics? | a calculator | 5. What is the word for a machine that people use for many things, for example sending emails, writing, watching movies? | a computer | 6. What is the word for a machine inside a car that looks like an electronic map and knows where you are? | Satellite navigation (Sat nav) | 7. What is the word for a machine in the wall on the street that gives you your money if you have a bank account? | a cash machine |
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