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. The living things in a given area and their non-living environment | Ecosystem | 2. Group of the same species living in an area | Population | 3. The surrounding air, water and soil where an organism lives | Environment | 4. Organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material so nutrients can be recycled back to the soil or water | Decomposer | 5. Shows how food chains in an ecosystem are linked | Food Web | 6. Animal that eats other animals or plants | Consumer | 7. Part of a food web, starting with a producer, ending with a top predator | Food Chain | 8. Green plant or algae that makes its own food using sunlight | Producer | 9. Well done, hand in your sheet for a prize | Winner |
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