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. Between 1982-1999, there were 18 playground deaths of children in Canada. Seventeen by strangulation. List TWO ways this could happen. Think of the equipment on playgrounds and children's clothing | scarves, draw strings, skipping ropes, swings ropes | 2. This party decoration is the leading cause of choking in children that is not food. Find one and take a picture of it | balloon | 3. What window feature has been responsible for 23 deaths to date, in Canada? | window blind cords | 4. Type out the differences between choking, strangulation and suffocation | object lodged in airway, closing of airway externally ,inability to breathe perhaps by being trapped inside something | 5. What type of First Aid can be administered to someone who is choking? | abdominal thrust | 6. What type of First Aid can be administered to someone who has stopped breathing? | CPR | 7. In any type of Emergency, the best thing for a child to do is locate and adult or ______________. | 911 |
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