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. Look at these two flowers, which one is the Blood Flower? | 2. That is incorrect. | 3. That is correct! The Blood Flower attracts butterflies and birds to it's succulent flowers. Monarch butterfly larvae love to feast on the leaves and other butterflies sip its nectar, it is native to South America. | 4. Which name is the correct name for this fern? | A) Polypodium virginianum OR … B) Cystopteris bulbifera. | 5. That is correct! The Polypodium virginianum, much more commonly known as rock polypody, rock cap fern, or common polypody, is a small evergreen species of fern, native to the Eastern United States and Canada. It generally grows on rocks and occasionally on tree roots. | 6. That is incorrect. |
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