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. Find me at the gatekeeper’s home, Search this area with a fine toothed comb | MAIN OFFICE | 2. A pile of words, Jackets of hordes, Take a quick look, In the place of the book | LIBRARY | 3. Head to the place of some reaction, To further this puzzle transaction | SCIENCE LAB | 4. Roosevelt is full of talent: drawing, photography, and ceramics.Find the area where students can display their artistic abilities. | Art Atrium | 5. A court of all love, With balls from above, The way you must get,Is split with a net | TENNIS COURT | 6. Grub Hub | Cafeteria | 7. To solve the hunt you must get, Into the room wired to the net, Crammed with tech and full of code, The clue is hidden in this abode | Computer Lab | 8. This is a place you can hoop and holler but if you want one in your home, you may have to pay top dollar. | Gym | 9. To beat the heat you come in here. The water is cool and very clear. What am I? | Pool |
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