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. When did Martin Luther King Jr. go to jail? | April 16th | 2. What famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech was written April 16th? | Letter From Birmingham Jail | 3. What dates did the Birmingham Children's Crusade run? | May 2nd-5th | 4. What was the ultimate result of the Birmingham Children's Crusade? | End of Segregation in Birmingham | 5. What date were African American college students assaulted for sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi? | May 28th | 6. How many African American college students were assaulted? | 4 | 7. On what date was Medgar Evers assassinated? | June 12th | 8. Who was Medgar Evers? | A Civil Rights Activist | 9. When did the March for Jobs and Freedom occur? | August 28th | 10. What famous speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the March for Jobs and Freedom? | I Have A Dream | 11. When did a bomb explode outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama? | September 15th | 12. How many people were killed by the bomb? | 4 |
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