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. Who was the legendary Benedictine monk who invented champagne? | Dom Perignon. | 2. Name the largest freshwater lake in the world? | Lake Superior. | 3. Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility? | The Moon. | 4. What is someone who shoes horses called? | A farrier. | 5. What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor? | A Mackintosh. | 6. What kind of weapon is a falchion? | A sword. | 7. Which word goes before vest, beans and quartet? | String. | 8. What is another word for lexicon? | Dictionary. | 9. Name the seventh planet from the sun. | Uranus. | 10. Who invented the rabies vaccination? | Louis Pasteur. |
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