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. Named after UCLA’s first [and only] black mayor, you could say this building has international appeal. | Tom Bradley International Hall | 2. Amidst late 1940’s Cold War hysteria, all UCLA faculty were required to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath. However, one man refused. No one could have thought that this physics professor, fired in 1950 merely for exerting his freedom of speech, would one day return to become President of the University of California. This dorm, which was built expressly to host athletes in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, is named in his honor. | Saxon Suites | 3. When this building was built, it marked a turning point in UCLA’s history. It was the first step of UCLA’s long transition from a commuter college to a residential college. Drop by the front door of this building, which holds the title of UCLA’s first-ever residence hall. | Hershey Hall | 4. When this man applied for his first job as a talent agent in Hollywood in the 1960s, he lied on his resume that he had graduated from UCLA. Forty years later, after he had become the most powerful man in Hollywood, he donated millions to UCLA. This building is probably his crown jewel. | David Geffen School of Medicine | 5. “Tell me about your mother…” Located in North Campus, this building houses UCLA’s theatre performances and is not, in fact, named after Sigmund. | Freud Playhouse |
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