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. 1. True or False: A singing poet is called a philosopher | false | 2. 2. True or False: A large group of foot soldiers, armed with shields and spears and trained to move together, is called a Phalanx | true | 3. 3. True or False: Greece is located on the Apennine peninsula | false | 4. 4. True or false: Alexander the Great’s empire extended as far east as India. | true | 5. 5. True or false: In ancient times, Greece was made up of independent cities called city- states. | True | 6. 6. True or false: All the work in Sparta was done by the bards. | false | 7. 7. True or false: Alexander the Great’s short life was prophesied in the book of Esther. | false | 8. 8. True or false: Most of Greece was conquered by Alexander’s father; Philip II. | True | 9. 9. True or false: Alexander the Great built 16 cities and named each of them Alexandria after himself. | True | 10. 10. True or False: The climate zone that is neither hot nor cold is called the temperate zone. | True | 11. 11. Weather conditions of a region over a period of many years is called _______ | climate | 12. 12. Conditions such as temperature and precipitation which change from day to day make up part of a region’s __________ | weather | 13. 13. What Greek god was honored by the Olympic games? | Zeus | 14. 14. The city state that was first to become powerful | Sparta | 15. 15. Philosophers and foreigners were not welcome here. | Sparta | 16. 16. Who was a freed slave who wrote fables? | Aesop |
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