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. During the Age of Exploration a new type of ship was developed that allowed sailors to faster and were more maneuverable than the earlier clinker built ships | caravel | 2. What is the full name of the first man to circumnavigate the world | Ferdinand Magellan | 3. During the Reformation the Holy Roman Emperor issued an order for Martin Luther's arrest. What was it called | the edict of worms | 4. During the Court of Inquisition, thise accused of heresy had to wear a particular garment. What was it called? | San Benito | 5. Who ordered the Plantation of Munster? | Queen Elizabeth I | 6. Who ordered the Plantation of Ulster? | King James I | 7. During the American Revolution, what was the Sons of Liberty slogan? | No Taxation without Representation | 8. During the American Revolution, at which battle did the colonists and the French finally defeat the British? | Yorktown | 9. During the Agricultural Revolution, who came up with the concept of selective breeding? | Robert Bakewell | 10. During the Industrial Revolution many people died from this disease due to drinking dirty water. | Cholera |
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