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. Where was the first ancient games hosted? | Olympia | 2. Where was the first Modern games hosted? | Athens | 3. Who was the father of the Modern Olympics?2 | Baron Pierre de Coubertin2 | 4. There are seven Greatest Humanitarians in history. Name two humanitarians. What did they do?3 | Harriet Tubman-Helped slaves to escape in the 1849... Martin Luther King - Activist on the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.A. Mother Teresa - roman Catholic nun cared for refugees, sick, orphaned children, AIDS sufferers, aged and mentally ill. Norman Borlaug - Agricultural revolution, saved billions of people from starvation. Nelson Mandela - abolish racial segregation in South Africa, human rights. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian Political and idealogical leader, independence from the British (civil rights). Oskar Schindler - saved over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.3 | 5. Name four comic super heros and what were their real names?4 | Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Wonderwomen4 | 6. Who is this Champion? You have seen her on TV and in the newspapers. Why is she a Champion?5 | Moira Kelly. Selfless contributor to the less fortunate. Foundered the Children Foundation5 |
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