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. Are biographies fiction or nonfiction? | Non-fiction | 2. What does the word nonfiction mean? | True Information | 3. Does the person who the biography is about write the book? | No | 4. What is a biography called when someone writes it about himself or herself? | Autobiography | 5. Can biographies be written about people other than sports stars? | Yes | 6. Biographies include five things about a person. Name one of them. | Person's name, Birth, Death, Accomplishments, & Picture | 7. Who was our biography I shared with your class today about? | Rosa Parks | 8. When was she born? | February 4, 1913 | 9. When did she die? | October4, 2005 | 10. What did she do that is significant? | She was important to the Black Civil Rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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