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. Welcome to the Sir Isaac Newton Scavenger Hunt!!! Your team will be required to answer the provided questions to the best of your ability. The team with the most correct answers wins the challenge! Each question has two possible answers. The correct answer will lead you the the correct classroom for the next question!!! Make sure that you are wearing your cell phone tag at all times in the hallway! Good luck and have fun! | good | 2. | 3. There is a famous quote by Newton about giants- what is the full quote? | apple | 4. | 5. | 6. Under whose reign was Newton honored with a knighthood? What was the year Newton became a knight? | Queen Anne | 7. | 8. | 9. Newton designed a new telescope-what was different about it? | concave mirror | 10. | 11. A unit of measurement was named after Newton-what is a Newton? | force | 12. | 13. In the summer of 1665 Newton left Cambridge- why? | Bubonic plague | 14. | 15. What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to pen the laws of gravity? | apple | 16. | 17. What are the dates for Isaac Newton’s birth and death? | 1703 | 18. | 19. | 20. Newton’s great work “Philosphiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica” was published under the Royal Society’s license in 1687, but who arranged and paid for its publication? | apple | 21. | 22. What object did Newton use to examine gravity around the Earth? | apple | 23. | 24. When Newton was 47, he sat for his first portrait. Who painted this now famous portrait? | apple | 25. | 26. What is the name of Newton’s study of light? | optics | 27. | 28. Is the house where Sir Isaac Newton born still standing? | yes | 29. | 30. In what year did Newton become president of the Royal Society? | 1300 | 31. | 32. Where is Newton buried and what scientist is buried next to him? | Galileo |
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