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. 1. How many bags of wool did Baa Baa Black Sheep have? Who was the second bag for? | 3 bags full. Dame | 2. 2. What did John in Diddle Diddle Dumpling have on when he went to bed? | His breeches | 3. 3. What did Georgie Porgie do to make the girls cry? | Kissed the girls | 4. 4. What did the dish do in Hey Diddle Diddle? | Ran away with the spoon | 5. 5. What did the mouse do before the clock struck one? (Hickory Dickory Dock) | The mouse ran up the clock | 6. 6. Who tossed the dog in The House That Jack Built? | The cow | 7. 7. Where is Little Boy Blue, the boy who looks after the sheep? | He's under the haystack, fast asleep | 8. 8. Where did Jack and Jill go? Why? | Up the hill to fetch a pail of water | 9. 9. What was Little Miss Muffet eating while sitting on her tuffet? | Eating her curds and whey | 10. 10. In I'm a Little Teapot, what should you do to me after you hear me shout? | Tip me over and pour me out | 11. 11. What is planted in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's garden? (3 things) | Silver bells, cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row | 12. 12. In Monday's Child, describe Friday's Child. | Loving and giving | 13. 13. Where did Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater keep his wife? | He put her in a pumpkin shell | 14. 14. Where has Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat been? | To London to visit the queen | 15. 15. Where does the Muffin Man live? | Drury Lane | 16. 16. What Are Little Girls Made Of? | Sugar and spice, and everything nice | 17. 17. What Are Little Boys Made Of? | Snips and snails, and puppy dog tails | 18. 18. What did the Three Little Kittens lose? | Their mittens | 19. 19. Why did the Little Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly swallow a cat? | To catch the bird | 20. 20. In Mary Had a Little Lamb, what made the children laugh and play? | To see a lamb in school |
Question 1 (of 20)
Question 2 (of 20)
Question 3 (of 20)
Question 4 (of 20)
Question 5 (of 20)
Question 6 (of 20)
Question 7 (of 20)
Question 8 (of 20)
Question 9 (of 20)
Question 10 (of 20)
Question 11 (of 20)
Question 12 (of 20)
Question 13 (of 20)
Question 14 (of 20)
Question 15 (of 20)
Question 16 (of 20)
Question 17 (of 20)
Question 18 (of 20)
Question 19 (of 20)
Question 20 (of 20)