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. In the book, Follow the Moon Home, the author's famous grandfather is mentioned. Who is the famous grandfather? | Hint, additional information is found at the back of the book. | 2. How did Lonnie get his idea for "a great water gun" in the book, Whoosh, by Chris Barton? | Hint, he was in his bathroom. | 3. What does the pressure feel like at a depth of 3500 feet or 1066.8 meters? | Hint, use the chart in the book, A Day in the Deep, by Kevin Kurtz. | 4. At five o'clock in the salt marsh, we find a horseshoe crab's molted shell. Look up the word "molt" in the dictionary and complete the definition. | Hint,use the guide words at the top of the page! | 5. Temple Grandin is an individual with Autism, what is she known for saying? | Hint, use the book, The Girl Who Thought in Pictures, The Story of Temple Grandin, by Julia Finley Mosca. | 6. My mother stood akimbo while I told her the news. What does akimbo mean? | Hint, look up the definition! | 7. In the Bluebonnet book, Little Cat's Luck, Patches is searching for a special place. On page 78 she finds her special place, and you need to find the 29th word! | Hint, count carefully! |
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