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. Who wrote the stories ‘The BFG’ and ‘Matilda’? | Roald Dahl | 2. Who wrote the Famous Five books? | Enid Blyton | 3. In Romeo and Juliet, what are the two houses called? | Montague and Capulet | 4. In which series of book would you meet the characters Draco Malfoy and Dobby the House Elf? | Harry Potter | 5. In J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, what is John and Michael Darling’s sister called? | Wendy | 6. In which book would you find Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare? | Guess how much I love you | 7. What is the name of Roo’s mother in A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books? | Kanga | 8. What is the name of Sunny, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire’s evil guardian in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events? | Count Olaf | 9. Who is the author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'? | Jeff Kinney |
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