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. Used to reinforce concreate | rebar | 2. A temporary, watertight, circular dam that allows foundation work to be carried out on a riverbed | cofferdam | 3. A kind of beam bridge that has support at only one end. The single support carries the weight of the beam and prevents the beam from bending or rotating. This design allows engineers to build longer span beam-type bridges | cantilever | 4. Parts of the supports of a bridge that spread the weight of the bridge. These are normally under the ground | foundation | 5. Natural cement. The Romans made this cement with ash that was blown out of the volcano Vesuvius | pozzolana |
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