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. World Series Champions | Oakland Athletics | 2. Super Bowl VIII Champions | Miami Dolphins | 3. NBA Champions | Boston Celtics | 4. Stanley Cup Champions | Philadelphia Flyers | 5. World Cup Soccer Champions | West Germany | 6. Top Model | Raquel Welch | 7. Famous Quote | Dy-No-Mite by JJ Walker on Good Times | 8. Arthur Fry invented this note | The Post-It | 9. The national speed limit was lowered to this due to a fuel crisis | 55 mph | 10. Most popular Christmas toy | Magna Doodle | 11. Top three TV shows | All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Chico and The Man | 12. Top Single | I can Help-Billy Swan | 13. The the only US President to ever resign did this year | Richard Nixon | 14. This was the cost of gas | $.53 a gallon | 15. People listened to music on this | record player | 16. Approximate world population was this | 4 billion | 17. Most popular game show | The Price is Right | 18. Most popular girls name | Jennifer | 19. Most popular boys name | Christopher | 20. This popular candy was introduced | Skittles | 21. This was the toy of the year | Legos | 22. A six pack of Coke was this price | $.88 | 23. 10 cents could buy this | a postage stamp | 24. A new car cost this | $3750. | 25. This was the tallest building | The Sears Tower in Chicago | 26. Price for a loaf of bread | $.28 | 27. A gallon of milk cost | $1.39 | 28. A 19 inch television cost | $590.00 | 29. Cost of a movie ticket | $1.79 | 30. This popular sandwhich cookie was introduced | Double Stuff Oreo | 31. How many babies were born in the US this particular year | 3,159,958 | 32. Who else was born this year? | Mrs. Gardner |
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