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. In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh. | Pennsylvania | 2. The yogo Sapphire is the only North American gem to be included in the Crown of jewels in England. | Montana | 3. Bowdie is known for the tallest water tower in? | South Dakota | 4. On January 26, 1960 Danny Heater, a student from Burnsville, scored 135 points in a high school basketball game earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. | West Virgina | 5. Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in America. | idaho | 6. Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. | Michigan | 7. Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet. | Colorado | 8. John Babcock invented both the indoor rowing machine and the sliding seat during the winter of 1869/1870. | New York | 9. Boxer Joe Louis was born in Lexington in 1914. He died in 1981. | Alabama | 10. Historic Saint Marys ( ) is the second oldest city in the nation. | Georgia |
In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh. &choe=UTF-8
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The yogo Sapphire is the only North American gem to be included in the Crown of jewels in England. &choe=UTF-8
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Bowdie is known for the tallest water tower in? &choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 10)
On January 26, 1960 Danny Heater, a student from Burnsville, scored 135 points in a high school basketball game earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. &choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 10)
Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in America. &choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 10)
Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. &choe=UTF-8
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Colorado contains 75% of the land area of the U.S. with an altitude over 10,000 feet.&choe=UTF-8
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John Babcock invented both the indoor rowing machine and the sliding seat during the winter of 1869/1870. &choe=UTF-8
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Boxer Joe Louis was born in Lexington in 1914. He died in 1981. &choe=UTF-8
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Historic Saint Marys ( ) is the second oldest city in the nation.&choe=UTF-8
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