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. What period in history lasted from the 5th to the 15th century? | The Middle Ages | 2. What is the English word for “Ritter”? | knight | 3. Why did people build castles in the Middle Ages? | Protection, house for the king | 4. What is the name of a famous monk? | Martin Luther, St. Francis, Monk Eadwin, St. Benedict | 5. What is the name of a famous nun? | Hildegard von Bingen | 6. What is the German word for the festivity called “baptism”? | Taufe | 7. True or false? The sun goes around the earth. | False! The earth goes around the sun. | 8. In what year did Christopher Columbus discover America? | 1492 | 9. How many theses did Martin Luther post on the church in Wittenberg? | 95 | 10. What is the English word for “Ablassbrief”? | Letter of indulgence | 11. What special tool did Johannes Gutenberg invent? | Printing press |
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