QR Challenge: Survival Challenge Scavenger Hunt Riddles

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. The more I dry, the wetter I become?	towel
2. I’m a bird but I can’t fly?	Penguin
3. I don’t go out and play, I just stay home all day, I’m nice – you might agree, but mostly your feet just rub me?	door mat
4. Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but I’m always ready to tell a tale?	book
5. I have a neck, but no head, but I still wear a cap?	bottle
6. Some take me in the morning, others take me in the evening, but one thing you should know – that when I’m ‘taken’, I don’t really go anywhere?	shower
7. My words number quite many (like pen, pent, and penny); my title you will discover, is explained under my cover?	dictionary
8. Fluttering, flying and flitting so free, from flower to flower is where you’ll find me?	butterfly
9. I start with an “e”, I end with an “e”, but I usually contain only one letter?	envelope
10. I’m so simple that I only point; yet I guide people all over the world?	compass
11. Although I may have eyes, I can’t see. At one time there was a dearth of me in Ireland and people went hungry?	potato
12. What’s black and white and read all over?	newspaper
13. If you were ‘able’, you’d add a ‘T’?	table
14. Look for a rainbow in a box?	Look for a rainbow in a box?
15. Keys open my door, but mine only make a sound?	piano
16. I’m an insect, and the first half of my name reveals another insect; also some famous group of musicians had a similar name?	beetle
17. I may be black, and may be white, or any color in between. I’m small and made of plastic, not round but very light; when I’m moved up and down, I’m used to create sound?	guitar pick
18. I get bigger when I eat, but die weaker when I drink?	fire
19. What invention lets you look right through a wall?	window
20. People climb me, cut me and burn me, they show me no respect! My rings are not of gold, but they do tell my age?	tree
21. What is higher without the head, than with it?	pillow
22. I have a heart, and my last five letters mean the same as “strangle”?	artichoke
23. I grow shorter, as I grow older?	candle
24. I have a face that doesn’t frown, I have hands that do not wave, I have no mouth, just a familiar sound, I don’t walk – but I move around?	clock
25. When you buy me I’m black, when you use me I’m red, and when you throw me away I’m gray?	burning charcoal

 

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