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. The most athletic of the team has to do 30 pull-ups | 2. All the twins have to sing “Volare” | 3. Ask a passer-by to say the sentence “We will win the scavenger hunt” in greek, lithuanian and dutch | 4. One of you must eat the biggest cannolo in Palumbo bakery in two bites | 5. You must ask for an italian copy of the “Promessi Sposi” and one of the twins has to read the first 10 lines of Chapter 1 | 6. You must find the “Camellia Sinensis” | 7. Improvise a scene from the “Divina Commedia” |
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