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. When a Ferris wheel casts a 20-meter shadow, a man 1.8 meters tall casts a 2.4 meter shadow. How tall is the Ferris Wheel | 15 | 2. A flagpole casts a shadow 28 feet long. A person standing nearby casts a shadow eight feet long. If the person is six feet tall, how tall is the flagpole | 21 | 3. A photograph measuring four inches wide and five inches long is the mural is enlarged to make a wall mural. If the mural is 120 inches wide, how long is the mural | 150 | 4. A 9-foot ladder leans against a building six feet above the ground. At what height would a 15-foot ladder touch the building if both ladders form the same angle with the ground | 10 | 5. Chris wants to reduce a triangular pattern with sides 16,16, and 20 centimeters. If the longest side of the new pattern is to be 15 cm, how long should the other two sides be | 12 |
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