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 can you see? | bones in the earth and a red-white right angled measure | 2. Is this a primary or secondary source? Write a sentence to explain. | Primary because they are artefacts (bones) - at the time of the event | 3. Write a list of questions you would like to know about the bones found in Clue A. | depends on students | 4. When were the bones found? | 1956 | 5. Were these the only bones found in this area? Give details. | No, bones also found in the 1830s, 1880 and later in 1980s. | 6. How many skeletons in total were found? | 79+ | 7. What information does Clue B give about the area where the bones were found? | site of 2 ancient battles between English and Norwegian armies | 8. Why do you think the historians checked for the existence of a church on the area where the bones were found? | left behind burials | 9. How do you think discovering that there was not a church on the site helps understand where the bones came from? | rules out burials as source | 10. Clues D to H: what is the information you get from this clue? | varies | 11. Clues D to H: how does this support your hypothesis? | varies |
What can you see?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 11)
Is this a primary or secondary source? Write a sentence to explain.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 11)
Write a list of questions you would like to know about the bones found in Clue A.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 11)
When were the bones found?&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 11)
Were these the only bones found in this area? Give details.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 11)
How many skeletons in total were found?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 11)
What information does Clue B give about the area where the bones were found?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 11)
Why do you think the historians checked for the existence of a church on the area where the bones were found?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 11)
How do you think discovering that there was not a church on the site helps understand where the bones came from?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 11)
Clues D to H: what is the information you get from this clue?&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 11)
Clues D to H: how does this support your hypothesis?&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 11)
