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 you seek embraces my shell. If you think a bit you’ll find me in a flash. When I'm hungry I am wanted, but when full I am no longer needed. Filled with colors bold and brash. | Classroom Trash Can. | 2. You will find the what you seek in the place where I live. Alive without breath, as cold as death. Never thirsty, ever drinking. Clad in mail, never clinking. I may go around in circles, yet always straight ahead. I never complain, no matter where I am led. You may trap me with your net, but you don't want to swim with me, my kind conquer mountain kingdoms. | Fish Aquarium. | 3. Good things come in threes, with this answer you will find me. May this third clue be your lucky charm. I may have two hands that cannot wave, and a face that cannot frown. I run, even though I do not walk. I sometimes sing, but never talk. The secrets I hear may be a treasure you hold dear. | Classroom Clock. |
What you seek embraces my shell. If you think a bit you’ll find me in a flash. When I'm hungry I am wanted, but when full I am no longer needed. Filled with colors bold and brash. &choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 3)
You will find the what you seek in the place where I live. Alive without breath, as cold as death. Never thirsty, ever drinking. Clad in mail, never clinking. I may go around in circles, yet always straight ahead. I never complain, no matter where I am led. You may trap me with your net, but you don't want to swim with me, my kind conquer mountain kingdoms.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 3)
Good things come in threes, with this answer you will find me. May this third clue be your lucky charm. I may have two hands that cannot wave, and a face that cannot frown. I run, even though I do not walk. I sometimes sing, but never talk. The secrets I hear may be a treasure you hold dear.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 3)