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. When did the succession crisis begin | 1286 | 2. When did the Maid of Norway reach Orkney | 1290 | 3. When was the battle of Stirling Bridge | 1297 | 4. When was Wallace executed | 1305 | 5. When was the battle of Bannockburn | 1314 | 6. When was the Treaty of Birgham | 1290 | 7. When did Edward attack Berwick | 1296 | 8. When did Edward I die | 1307 | 9. What was signed in 1320 | Declaration of Arbroath | 10. Name the 6 guardians | Bishop William Fraser, Bishop Robert Wishart, Earl Alexander Comyn of Buchan, Earl Duncan of Fife, Baron John Comyn of Badenoch & Baron James Stewart of Renfrewshire. |
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