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. The cats played with string. | simple sentence | 2. After the cats hid in boxes, they played with a mouse. | complex sentence | 3. The cats played with string, and then hid in cardboard boxes. | compound sentence | 4. After the cats played with string, they hid in cardboard boxes, and they inspired a famous paradox. | compound-complex sentence | 5. The cat is hungry. | declarative sentence | 6. Feed the cat. | imperative sentence | 7. Did you feed the cat? | interrogative sentence | 8. The cat brought a mouse into the house! | exclamatory sentence | 9. The elephants proceeded on their walk, pounding the dry dirt, and swinging their trunks. | loose sentence | 10. With new buds popping out, flowers blooming, and mild temperatures, spring is my favorite season. | periodic sentence | 11. With weeping eyes and hearts, they laid his body to rest. | zeugma | 12. “Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.” | anaphora | 13. This is the coward who stole the cookie, ate the cookie, lied about the cookie. | asyndeton | 14. “There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens…” | polysyndeton | 15. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” | antithesis | 16. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” | chiasmus | 17. I spent the day cleaning the house, reading a book, and putting my life in order. | climactic sentence | 18. Tired is he who faithfully completes his homework. | inversion | 19. Engaged and excited, the students rushed to complete the scavenger hunt. | opening adjectives | 20. The April sun, weak but determined, shone through the classroom window to brighten the faces of the long-suffering students. | delayed adjectives |
The cats played with string.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 20)
After the cats hid in boxes, they played with a mouse.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 20)
The cats played with string, and then hid in cardboard boxes.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 20)
After the cats played with string, they hid in cardboard boxes, and they inspired a famous paradox.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 20)
The cat is hungry.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 20)
Feed the cat.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 20)
Did you feed the cat?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 20)
The cat brought a mouse into the house!&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 20)
The elephants proceeded on their walk, pounding the dry dirt, and swinging their trunks.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 20)
With new buds popping out, flowers blooming, and mild temperatures, spring is my favorite season.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 20)
With weeping eyes and hearts, they laid his body to rest.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 20)
“Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.”&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 20)
This is the coward who stole the cookie, ate the cookie, lied about the cookie.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 20)
“There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens…”&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 20)
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 20)
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 20)
I spent the day cleaning the house, reading a book, and putting my life in order.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 20)
Tired is he who faithfully completes his homework.&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 20)
Engaged and excited, the students rushed to complete the scavenger hunt.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 20)
The April sun, weak but determined, shone through the classroom window to brighten the faces of the long-suffering students.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 20)
