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. From the airplane window, Dustin looked down at the city below. It was a Monopoly board filled with hotels, houses, parks, trains, and roads. | Metaphor | 2. His words were as sweet as cotton candy, perhaps too sweet. And so she didn't trust him.2 | 2Simile | 3. Like a knight in shining armor, her father rescued her from the growling wild dog.3 | 3Simile | 4. Forrest Gump's mama says, "Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get.4 | 4Metaphor | 5. Rainbows give us a variety of color after a shower. Books offer us a variety of stories to inspire our imagination. Then are books reading rainbows?5 | 5Metaphor | 6. Jonah's bicycle tires are flat as pancakes.6 | 6Simile | 7. My Aunt Millie said I was the cutest bug she has ever seen! Yuck!7 | 7Metaphor | 8. You are my sunshine! You make me happy when skies are gray.7 | Metaphor | 9. After falling down the stairs, Lavar had a bump as big as an apple on his forehead.8 | 8Metaphor | 10. After falling down the stairs, Lavar had a bump as big as an apple on his forehead.9 | 9Simile | 11. There was a forest of candles on Papa's birthday cake.10 | 10Metaphor |
From the airplane window, Dustin looked down at the city below. It was a Monopoly board filled with hotels, houses, parks, trains, and roads.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 11)
His words were as sweet as cotton candy, perhaps too sweet. And so she didn't trust him.2&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 11)
Like a knight in shining armor, her father rescued her from the growling wild dog.3&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 11)
Forrest Gump's mama says, "Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get.4&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 11)
Rainbows give us a variety of color after a shower. Books offer us a variety of stories to inspire our imagination. Then are books reading rainbows?5&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 11)
Jonah's bicycle tires are flat as pancakes.6&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 11)
My Aunt Millie said I was the cutest bug she has ever seen! Yuck!7&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 11)
You are my sunshine! You make me happy when skies are gray.7&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 11)
After falling down the stairs, Lavar had a bump as big as an apple on his forehead.8&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 11)
After falling down the stairs, Lavar had a bump as big as an apple on his forehead.9&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 11)
There was a forest of candles on Papa's birthday cake.10&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 11)
