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. question You need to head to an area in the school that is green, but it is not grass. When you reach this location. You must take a photo with two of your group members jumping in sync with the big rope, just like you would have done for Jump Rope for Heart in Primary School. | Tennis courts | 2. question2 This is an area that is close to the school but it is not Burnley Oval. It’s a place where you will not have to cross any roads but you may need to cross a bridge. When you reach this location you need to take a photo on the playground. One member must be holding the position a plank, one member must be standing on one foot and one must be doing a star jump (feet off the ground) all at the same time. Don’t forget about your mascot! | O'connell Reserve | 3. question3 Down by the banks of the Yarra Yarra, where the rowers jump from bank to banky, with an oar, a boat, a cox and hope. MGC rowers GO! At this location take a video of your whole group performing 2 laps of lunges from one end of the rowing shed to the other. | Rowing shed | 4. question4 You have now been running the 1.6km course for 4 years. Head to the correct turn around point and take a photo of your group at this location but along the way you must also take a photo of a short cut that you have taken in the 4 years of doing the 1.6km course. | 1.6km Turn around | 5. question5 BEEP BEEP BEEP….The school is being evacuated. You must head to the place where you would cross to Burnley Oval if you were in the Info Centre. At this location you must recreate a safe crossing video. You must include the phrase: ‘Look right, look left and look right again’. All members of your group must play a part in this video. | School crossing to burnley | 6. question6 OK so you have crossed the road safely now head to the place where all children would run to. At this location stage a Where’s Wally photo with three members of your group plus your team mascot. | Burnley playground | 7. question7 Your blood sugar levels are getting low and you are feeling a little unwell. Where would you go to? At this location there will be something to raise those blood sugar levels. Remember a ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ can go a long way. | Front office | 8. question8 Ahhh the shock of your alarm has woken you up suddenly. You look at the time and you have slept in!! You jump in the shower, get changed, have some breakfast, put your homework in your bag and you are on your way to school. Lunch comes around and….you have forgotten to pack lunch this morning. Head to a location where you can grab some lunch and take an action shot of two members of your group performing step ups. | canteen steps | 9. question9 Getting the right balance is hard in a team. But when you all work together all members of the group contribute to the overall product. Head to the gym and take a photo of your whole group performing a group balance. Remember we’re all in this together! | Gym |
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