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. First you must go where there is always a song, the piano keys are really long. Don’t interrupt class, just look around the door. Find the bar code to continue to do more. | music room | 2. Way to go, you went to the right place. Your group is not a disgrace. It’s time for you to find a place where you go each day. This is where you can always play. Make sure you have a key so you are not locked out, it’s not fun to be left out. You must solve the problem at this stop. You can find it where there is a drop. | playground | 3. Yeah, you have found two clues, you should not be blue. Your next place is where you go to let off steam and run and run while you scream. You will find the problem right outside the door. Be quiet the office does not like to hear you roar. | gym | 4. Next you must find the place where technology is found. Go inside and look around. Your problem should be easy to see if you know where the board used to be. | computer lab | 5. Next you must go to the place where you eat. Sometimes it can smell like feet. You will find the problem where the Sunrays perform. They love to sing even in a storm. | cafeteria | 6. Well, this time has gone by so fast. It’s time for you to return to your class. You did a great job, hope you had fun please slow down and don’t run! | classroom |
First you must go where there is always a song, the piano keys are really long. Don’t interrupt class, just look around the door. Find the bar code to continue to do more.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 6)
Way to go, you went to the right place. Your group is not a disgrace. It’s time for you to find a place where you go each day. This is where you can always play. Make sure you have a key so you are not locked out, it’s not fun to be left out. You must solve the problem at this stop. You can find it where there is a drop.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 6)
Yeah, you have found two clues, you should not be blue. Your next place is where you go to let off steam and run and run while you scream. You will find the problem right outside the door. Be quiet the office does not like to hear you roar.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 6)
Next you must find the place where technology is found. Go inside and look around. Your problem should be easy to see if you know where the board used to be.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 6)
Next you must go to the place where you eat. Sometimes it can smell like feet. You will find the problem where the Sunrays perform. They love to sing even in a storm.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 6)
Well, this time has gone by so fast. It’s time for you to return to your class. You did a great job, hope you had fun please slow down and don’t run!&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 6)