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. It’s safe to say DECA has been around a long time. Not joining could be a CRIME! But what is DECA exactly? Visit the clue location to see! | DECA is an association of marketing students, and it is open to any student with an interest in marketing, management, hospitality, and finance. | 2. Visit where there’s Folgers in your cup to see when DECA was first thought up! DECA started in ________. | 1946. | 3. How many high school students across the country make up this fine group? To find out, run to the place where you can shoot some hoops! | 215,000 members | 4. How much scholarship money does National DECA give out every year you may wonder, find out from those who work with numbers! | Over $300,000 | 5. There are 4 main ways DECA allows you to compete, to find them out run to the place where you eat! | Written events, principle events, team decision making events and individual series events. | 6. Into 5 DECA districts, Tennessee is split. To find out which one we’re in, go to the place with the most lit(erature). | DECA District 3 | 7. To find out the official DECA colors, you better ACT fast! You don’t want to finish last! | Blue and gold | 8. Any historical buff would know you see, that the birthplace of DECA is _________________. | Tennessee | 9. The official shape of DECA is the ________________. To find out the answer, head to the place where you do the most writing! | Diamond | 10. Want to miss school but not for a cough? To find out the location of DECA nationals this year go to the place where they keep up with your days off! | Orlando, FL | 11. Want to join this group of marketing scholars? Joining DECA only costs ___________! To find out how much you don’t have to be a charmer, but you do have to go talk to a farmer. | $15 | 12. Two groups from PHS have placed in the national Top 10. You must find out their placements to win! Your pencil and paper you must grab, and head to the place where you have lab! | 6th place and 4th place |
It’s safe to say DECA has been around a long time. Not joining could be a CRIME! But what is DECA exactly? Visit the clue location to see!&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 12)
Visit where there’s Folgers in your cup to see when DECA was first thought up! DECA started in ________.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 12)
How many high school students across the country make up this fine group? To find out, run to the place where you can shoot some hoops!&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 12)
How much scholarship money does National DECA give out every year you may wonder, find out from those who work with numbers!&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 12)
There are 4 main ways DECA allows you to compete, to find them out run to the place where you eat!&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 12)
Into 5 DECA districts, Tennessee is split. To find out which one we’re in, go to the place with the most lit(erature).&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 12)
To find out the official DECA colors, you better ACT fast! You don’t want to finish last!&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 12)
Any historical buff would know you see, that the birthplace of DECA is _________________.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 12)
The official shape of DECA is the ________________. To find out the answer, head to the place where you do the most writing!&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 12)
Want to miss school but not for a cough? To find out the location of DECA nationals this year go to the place where they keep up with your days off!&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 12)
Want to join this group of marketing scholars? Joining DECA only costs ___________! To find out how much you don’t have to be a charmer, but you do have to go talk to a farmer.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 12)
Two groups from PHS have placed in the national Top 10. You must find out their placements to win! Your pencil and paper you must grab, and head to the place where you have lab!&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 12)
