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.
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1. 1. There are 610 students at Willow Springs. They are all going to see The Nutcracker ballet. If 84 students can fit on a bus, how many buses do they need? | 8 | 2. 2. A room has an area of 425 square feet. The width of the room is 17 feet. What is the length? | 25 feet | 3. 3. Aleah needs to save $384. If she saves $30 a week, how many weeks will it take her to save the money? | 13 weeks. | 4. 4. Mr. B has 264 crayons. If he has 22 students and divides the crayons equally, how many crayons will each student get? | 12 | 5. 5. Biz Town costs $870. If there are 145 students in the fifth grade, how much will each student need to pay? | $6 | 6. 6. Faith knitted 174 hats for the teenage homeless shelter. If it took her 30 minutes to make each hat, how many hours did she spend? | 87 | 7. 7.305 Fifth Graders are going on a field trip to the planetarium. If they need one chaperone for ever 12 students, how many chaperones are needed? | 26 | 8. 8. The area of a dance hall is 22,500 feet. If one side is 150 feet, what is the measurement of the other side? | 150 feet. | 9. 9. Cameron brought $52.50 as lunch money for he and his brother Zeke. If lunch is $1.75 per day, how many days can they eat hot lunch? | 15 days. | 10. 10. Mr. B spends 7.5 hours doing actual teaching. He spends 1.5 hours before school doing preparation and 2 hours after school grading papers and doing grades. If he makes $165 per day, how much does he make per hour? | $15 |
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