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. What is the order of the planets from the Sun? (Include the dwarf planet) | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | 2. What force keeps the Earth orbiting around the Sun? Who discovered this force? | Gravity. Sir Isaac Newton | 3. Who is the ancient Egyptian God of embalming and the dead? | Anubis | 4. How did Howard Carter discover Tutankhamun's tomb? When did he discover it? | A water boy. November 4th 1922 | 5. Name 3 different Tudor instruments of torture? | Rack, stocks, pillory, ducking stool, scold's bridle | 6. Write down Henry VIII's six wives in order. Which wife gave him a son? | Jane Seymour | 7. Name the female reproductive parts of a flower | stigma, style, ovary, ovule | 8. Name 4 creatures that pollinate flowers | accept various | 9. Name the 6 stages in the human life cycle | gestation, child, adolescent (teenager), adult, elderly | 10. How do bats locate their prey in the dark? What is the special name for this? | Echolocation |
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