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. My town has decided to sell the land where my neighborhood playground is located. My friends and I were upset about this decision. We got together and staged a protest by marching with signs that said, “Save Our Playground!” We were arrested and fined $50. Is this legal? | 2. John’s grandfather has a collection of antique rifles, shotguns, and handguns. His neighbor is afraid of guns and reports him to the police. Can he be arrested for having these guns? | 3. The United States is currently involved in a war with Iraq. Due to the high cost of the war, President Bush has urged each U.S. family to provide housing and food for three members of the military. Do U.S. families have to do this? | 4. My neighbor had his bike stolen from his front porch and reported the incident to the police. Later that night, a police officer knocked on our door demanding to search our house for the missing bike. Do we have to allow the search? | 5. On the way home from school, I stopped at the mall to buy a video game. As I was leaving the store, I was approached by a mall security guard. He noticed my book bag and began to question me about a CD that had been reported stolen. I asked to call my mom, but he said no and continued to question me. Can I refuse to answer his questions? | 6. I was accused of stealing my neighbor’s bicycle. A trial date has been set for next month, and I was told to get my own lawyer. My parents can’t afford a lawyer for me. Will I have to appear in court without a lawyer if I can’t afford one? | 7. My friends and I were playing baseball in a vacant lot. When it was my turn to hit, I hit a foul ball that broke the windshield of a parked car. The owner of the car took me to court. The judge decided a jury was not necessary because the crime was unintentional. He sentenced me to pay for the window to be repaired and twenty hours of volunteer work. Could I have insisted on a trial by jury? | 8. On the way home from school my friend steals a candy bar from the candy shop. As he leaves the store, he is caught by a police officer and arrested. At his trial the judge says, “You are not the first person to steal from this store. I want this to stop so I am fining $10,000.” Can the judge do this? |
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