QR Challenge: PA Scavenger Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. We traveled from near and far, but how did we get there if not by car?	boat
2. The last to come to PA, first moved with horses, then steam...hey hey!	trains
3. Miller is the title they had, and this was the product, not too bad	flour
4. Thanks to this animal we use, our state drink is quite healthy for you	cow
5. This was invented in Lancaster of course, a boat on wheels pulled by a horse	Conestoga Wagon
6. These were the original, the first not the last, there were 13 and they had a blast	13 original colonies
7. Land for sale?Who would do you know...find an ad and away you go	real estate advertisement
8. This is the law we all live by, for peace and stability that is why	PA Constitution
9. They met here in Philadelphia, a building so tall, they called it	Independence Hall
10. Many settlers arrived from here, find the continent they left without fear	Europe
11. This is something used for fuel, we have lots of it and that's cool	coal
12. A feather on top and ink in the well, they used this to sign that all was swell	quill pen
13. Treaties and Signs represent this, some quiet and coffee is always bliss	peace

 

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