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. How many continents are there and what are their names? | 6 Australia, Antartica, America, Europe, Asia, Africa | 2. What continent is New Zealand in? | Australia | 3. What ocean is the biggest ocean? | The Pacific | 4. What ocean laps onto the beaches of Gisborne? | Pacific Ocean | 5. What two bodies of water meet and mix at Cape Reinga? | Pacific Ocean and Tasman sea | 6. What is the meaning of Mediterranean sea? | middle of the earth sea, surrounded by land | 7. What is the equator? | a line drawn on maps showing the middle of the earth and seperating north and south hemispheres. | 8. What African countries have the equator running through them? | Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia | 9. What Hemisphere is France in? | North | 10. What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? | Autumn | 11. What country sits at the bottom of the American Continent? | Chile | 12. What country is the most North? | Greenland, northern most point is Kaffeklubben Island |
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