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. At the beginning of the novel, who or what was the 100th Birthday celebration for? | 2. What was Corrie’s house called and why was it unique? | 3. After Corrie, Betsie, Nollie, and Willem had grown up, what did their father do that showed his caring and compassionate nature? | 4. What did the ten Boom family do every morning at 8:30? | 5. What was Corrie’s first experience with death? | 6. Who was Karel? | 7. What did Corrie accomplish while working in her father’s watch shop? | 8. When Father almost died of Hepatitis, what did his friends save up to buy him? | 9. Whose voice did they often hear yelling on the radio? | 10. Who was Otto? | 11. Who was Christoffels? | 12. Describe the dream Corrie has that is mentioned several times in the novel? | 13. What were some signs that the Nazis had invaded Holland? | 14. What happened to Bulldog’s two dogs and why? | 15. What were the Dutch forbidden to do by 1942? | 16. Why was Peter, Corrie’s nephew, arrested by the Nazis? | 17. Describe how Corrie went about getting ration cards for the Jews she was helping? | 18. Where did Mr. Smit build the secret room? | 19. Why was Jop, the watch apprentice, arrested? | 20. What worried Pickwick about the Beje? | 21. Why was Corrie allowed to see her brother and sisters at Scheveningen? | 22. What did Corrie and Betsie do while in Barracks 28? | 23. While in the washroom at Ravensbruck Hospital, what did Corrie notice? | 24. What was the Bloemendaal? |
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