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. Bighorn sheep were extirpated from ND for 50 Years | True | 2. Only prairie dogs make their homes in prairie dog burrows | False | 3. Cottontail rabbits perform a courtship display in which they run into each other | False | 4. Mountain lions are the most common wildcats on the continent | False | 5. Bushy-tailed woodrats are sometimes called "packrats" because of their practice of storing objects in their nests | True | 6. Two of the smallest mammal species in the state are mice and prairie dogs | False | 7. To defend themselves against predators, short-horned lizards can inflate their bodies to twice their size and squirt water from their eyes | False | 8. Members of American Indian tribes are the only individuals allowed to possess eagle feathers | True | 9. The only venomous snake in the state is the bullsnake | False |
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