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. What is this an example of: 'as bright as the sun'? | Simile | 2. What does 'Agua' mean in English? | Water | 3. What tech company did Steve Jobs create? | Apple | 4. What do you get if you eat raw chicken? | Salmonella | 5. What does 'Bonjour' mean in English? | Hello | 6. What type of instrument is a trumpet? | Brass | 7. What country in North America has 50 states? | USA | 8. Who is the most famous footballer in the world (full name)? | Cristiano Ronaldo | 9. What unit of measurement is 1000x bigger than grams? | Kilograms | 10. Who painted the Mona Lisa? | Leonardo Da Vinci | 11. Which religion celebrates Eid? | Islam | 12. What year did WWI end (written in words)? | Nineteen-eighteen | 13. What force pulls things towards the ground? | Gravity |
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