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. Down, down, down we go! | Fixed equipment slide. | 2. You have to collect these to access the internet | Laptops in the library. | 3. The winner of the Book of the Year: Younger Reader is on display in the library (search on the internet if you need to but make sure to shut down and put the device away) | How to Bee | 4. There are new eyes in the school looking down on you. | Animal in the new mural. | 5. I'm hiding behind something you use to go up | Lattice behind the stairs. | 6. There is a Junior Fiction section in the library and a ? | Non-Fiction | 7. Mr Burnett waters these on Wednesdays. | The flower beds in front of the verandah. | 8. You can find me at the beach but also at Leeville Public School | The sandpit. | 9. I'm strong and rectangular and you can see me from the basketball court | Brick wall | 10. Your teacher sits here to read with you | Chair at the front of the room. |
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