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. a short, leather-covered, typically lead-filled club with a flexible handle, used as a weapon. | black jack | 2. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination. | eclipse | 3. force someone to leave a place, especially a country. | expelled | 4. refrain from insisting on or using. | waive | 5. a subdivision of an army, typically consisting of a small number of infantry battalions and/or other units and forming part of a division. | brigade |
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