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.
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1. What is the job of the Operating System? | Core software which runs the operations of the computer | 2. Name four operating systems found on PC's or Macs | Linux Windows MacOS Fedora | 3. Name two operating systems found on mobile devices? | Symbian iOS | 4. What Operating System are we using in school? | Windows 7 | 5. What type of operating system would you have at home? | Single user multi tasking, | 6. What type of operating system would we have at school? | Network operating system, | 7. Name three functions of an operating system? | Provide a user inteface, managing the computers memory, managing the hardware, | 8. What are the features of an online OS? | Allows you to access applications and files online, | 9. What Operating System is installed on the Raspberry Pi? | Linux, | 10. What was Microsofts first operating system and what did it look like? | MSDOS, |
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