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. 1.Famous scientist and painter who kept a notebook | Leonardo daVinci | 2. 2.Created the scientific method | Sir Francis Bacon | 3. 3.Invented the Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg | 4. 4.Famous play writer known for Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 5. 5.Writer who is known for the Divine Comedy | Dante Aleghieri | 6. 6.Painted the Mona Lisa | Leonardo daVinci | 7. 7.Discovered how blood circulated around the human body | William Harvey | 8. 8.Play writer best known for Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 9. 9.Artist who is known for painting frescos and paintings of the Madonna. His most famous work was The School of Athens | Raphael Sanzio | 10. 10.Famous for writing the Canterbury Tales | Geoffery Chaucer | 11. 11.Discovered the universe is heliocentric and all the planets revolve around the sun | Nicholas Copernicus | 12. 12.Scientist who is most known for his law of gravity | Isaac Newton | 13. 13.Artist who is famous for the Pieta and the David | Michelangelo Buonarroti | 14. 14.Printed the Gutenberg Bible | Johannes Gutenberg | 15. 15.Doctor who dissected dead human bodies to better understand human anatomy | Andres Vesalius | 16. 16.Writer who wrote about a persons journey to hell and heaven | Dante Alighieri | 17. 17.Scientist who found that the planets move in elliptical (ovals) around the sun | Johannes Kepler | 18. 18.Artist who painted and did engravings | Albrect Durer | 19. 19.Famous for his oil paintings, especially The Arnolfini Marriage | Jan Van Eyck | 20. 20.Scientist who used telescope to support Copernicus' theory | Galileo Galilei | 21. 21.Painted the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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