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: Answer the questions on the green adventure card #6 to complete this task. | 2, Gas, Solute, Water | 2. 1: Answer the questions on the green adventure card #7 to complete this task. | C, Ted Bundy, tweezers | 3. 1: Forensic anthropologists analyze skeletal remains to determine four characteristics for a victim. Age, sex, & stature are 3 of them. What is the other one? 2: True or False, DNA evidence can be extracted from a skeleton's teeth. 3: What is the abbreviation for the database used to find matches for the type of evidence in bottom photo? | Race, True, CODIS | 4. 1: Who performs autopsies? 2: Is time of death important in murder cases? 3: What does the abbreviation PMI represent? | Medical Examiner, yes, Postmortem Interval | 5. 1: Which penny on the back of this card is the correct one? 2: True or False,You can see Bugs Bunny at Walt Disney World. 3: What was the name of the software we used to create facial composites? | E, False, FACES |
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