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. 1. What is the second largest sportswear manufacturer worldwide and was named after its founder, Adolf Dassler. Adolf started producing shoes in the 1920s in Herzogenaurach near Nuremberg with the help of his brother Rudolf, who later formed the rival shoe company Puma. | Adidas | 2. 2. Used for the first time in 1981 as optional equipment for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the ...... has now become standard. And it has been helping to save lives ever since. | Airbag | 3. 3. In 1897, the company Bayer developed the first pain remedy with minimal side effects. This is one of the world’s most-favored medications for pain, fever and inflammation. About 12,000 of the 50,000 tons of this produced annually still come from Bayer. | Aspirin | 4. 4. The idea for a vehicle that would permit rapid, independent locomotion came to two German inventors almost simultaneously. In the year 1886, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler made humankind mobile. What is this? | Car | 5. 5. When livestock was stricken by a dangerous disease throughout Europe in 1870, Robert Koch discovered that bacteria were the cause of the disease. He was also able to isolate the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. With these discoveries, Koch founded a new branch of science. What is it? | Bacteriology | 6. 6. Ox bile and snake root were some of the ingredients used to make this drink in the middle ages. In 1516, the brothers Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X issued the “Purity Law.” From then on, only barley (and the malt made from it), hops and water could be used to produce this, now a “healthy” drink. | Beer | 7. 7. The first early versions of this item came about independently. The French “celeripede” (1816) and Baron Karl von Drais’ “Laufmaschine” (1817) were foot-powered wooden devices without pedals. What is it? | Bicycle | 8. 8. Today, everyday life is inconceivable without this: phone card, credit card, patient card – all important data are packaged neatly in plastic. This was developed by Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Göttrup in 1969. | Chip card | 9. 9. Equipped with three logical circuits and 2,600 relays, the first fully functional, programmable ...... was used in 1941. The inventor of the electro-mechanical, binary calculator Z3, Konrad Zuse, was a construction engineer from Berlin who hated doing maths. What is this? | Computer | 10. 10. These were invented and made in 1887 by the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick. He first fitted animals with them, and later made them for people. These ...... were made from heavy brown glass and were 18-21mm in diameter. What are they? | Contact lenses | 11. 11. A sweet, colorful, tiny little bear in the palm of your hand. You pick it up to your mouth, and bite its little head off. One of Germany’s most popular sweets was created in 1922 by Hans Riegel. He was born in Bonn, and opened a candy company called HARIBO. | Gummi Bears | 12. 12. The engineer Heinrich Focke began working on these flying machines in the 1930s. He performed research on the problems of control of rotary winged flight and built a scale model ...... in 1932. What is it? | Helicopter | 13. 13. Levi Strauss was trained as a tailor in Bavaria before joining the California gold rush. Here he ran into prospectors and miners who complained about easily torn pants. In 1873, Strauss patented his idea of using copper rivets at the stress points of sturdy work pants. | Jeans | 14. 14. Friedrich Froebel was a German educational reformer who invented the "garden of children". He opened the first one in 1837 to protect children from misery at the beginning of industrialisation. His ....... included pleasant surroundings, self-motivated activity, play, music, and the physical training of the child. | Kindergarten | 15. 15. This food was invented in France in 1756. But it was the German immigrant Richard Hellman who in 1905 sold the first ready-made one at Richard Hellman’s New York deli. He started selling it in large glass bottles because it was easier to sell. | Mayonnaise | 16. 16. Though he and his son founded the high-performance sports car firm that bears the family name, Ferdinand P...... Sr. is also remembered as the visionary who created the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1930s. What car brand name is this? | Porsche | 17. 17. Carl von Linde invented the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia ........... in 1876. The company he established to promote this invention was an international success: this rapidly displaced ice in food handling and was introduced into many industrial processes. What is it? | Refrigerator | 18. 18. Although little known outside Germany, Rudolf Hell helped to shape the world as we know it. In 1951, he developed the prototype for digital image processing: the Klischograph made it possible to scan images electronically. In 1963 he invented the first ...... for color images. | Scanner | 19. 19. In 1835 Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg, built his first ....... A year later he made the first grand ...... in his kitchen. In 1851, Steinweg emigrated to the United States, where he and four of his sons established their own production company Steinway & Sons in New York. | Piano | 20. 20. Albert Einstein enjoys star status, even though practically no one understands his greatest achievement, ............ In 1905, he questioned the absoluteness of time and space. Time, he claimed, always depends on the speed of the moving body. What is this theory? | The Theory of Relativity |
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