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. How long does hair grow after you die? | 1 month | 2. The strongest muscle in the body is the... | tongue | 3. On average, how many minutes does it take for the average human to fall asleep? | 6 | 4. Cows can go up stairs, but not where? | downstairs | 5. Which animal has a brain smaller than their own eye? | ostrich | 6. Which animal can clean its ears with its tongue? | giraffe | 7. "The quick brown fox jumps over the brown dog" is missing what letters of the alphabet? | none | 8. The Hawaiian alphabet contains how many letters? | 12 | 9. Pearls melt in what liquid? | vinegar | 10. Why would a bird die in a spaceship without gravity? | it can't swallow | 11. What animal can not walk backwards? | Kangaroo | 12. Do airplanes or donkeys kill more people annually? | donkeys | 13. Does a camel, rat, or frog live longer without water? | rat | 14. Do you have a unique tongue print (just like a finger print)? | yes | 15. Months that begin with what day of the week will always have a Friday the 13th? | Sunday | 16. What is the dot over an under case i called? | tittle | 17. What structure do butterflies use to taste: feet, antenna or wings? | feet | 18. What is a group of unicorns called? | a blessing | 19. How many noses does a slug have? | 4 | 20. What is the plastic covering on the tip of a shoelace called? | aglet | 21. How long is a kangaroo baby when it is born? | 1 inch | 22. What is a group of ravens called? | an unkindness | 23. What is the world's most popular first name? | Muhammad | 24. A ______ can live up to 3 weeks without its head? | cockroach | 25. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is how many seconds? | 13 | 26. A normal piece of paper cannot be folded more than how many times? | 7 | 27. A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll? | when did roosters start laying eggs? | 28. What goes up but never comes down? | age | 29. How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide? | none, how is there dirt in a hole? | 30. There is 5 apples and you take 3. How many do you have? | 3 | 31. How many months have 28 days? | all of them | 32. What is always coming but never comes? | the future | 33. What is heavier: 100kg of gold or 100kg of feathers? | they weigh the same | 34. There are 14 fish and 8 drown. How many fish are there? | 14 | 35. Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? | Mt Everest but not discovered yet | 36. A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? | Meat | 37. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become? | Wet | 38. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? | a towel | 39. Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape? | stop imagining | 40. What gets broken without being held? | silence | 41. If you take off my skin I won’t cry, but you will. What am I? | an onion | 42. There are 10 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake? | 10 |
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