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.
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| 1. What type of camp is Camp Green Lake? | Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. | 2. What's the worst thing that can happen to you while at Camp Green Lake? | The worst thing that you can happen to you at Camp Green Lake is to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. | 3. Other than their names, what is one thing that all Stanley Yelnats have in common? | One things that all the Stanley Yelnats have in common, despite their bad luck, is that they always remained hopeful. | 4. Why doesn't Camp Green Lake have fences? | Camp Green Lake doesn't have fences because it is the only place for 100 miles that has water. If you ran away, you would die of thirst. | 5. What were the requirements of the hole digging? | The hole has to be 5 feet high and 5 feet wide - the same height and length of the shovel. | 6. What is the one big rule at Camp Green Lake? | The one big rule at Camp Green Lake is don't upset the warden. | 7. Who is Madame Zeroni? | Madame Zeroni was an old woman, a gypsy, who put a curse on Stanley's great-great grandfather, Elya Yelnats. | 8. How many spots does a yellow-spotted lizard have? | A yellow-spotted lizard has exactly eleven (11) spots. | 9. Where do yellow-spotted lizards like to live? | Yellow-spotted lizards like to live in holes. | 10. Who is Myra Menke? | Myra Menke is the fourteen-year old girl who Stanley Yelnat's great-great grandfather was in love with. |
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