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 group that helps those in need | Charity | 2. Letting workers go because a company cannot afford to pay them | Layoff | 3. The practice of buying something and paying for it later | Credit | 4. A place where people could get free food | Breadline | 5. This man was elected president in 1932 | FDR | 6. FDR served this many terms as president | 4 | 7. A plan that protects against loss in return for regular payments | Insurance | 8. This was the name of FDR's plan for the nation's recovery | The New Deal | 9. Have a mental or physical handicap | Disabled | 10. One who favors change | Liberal | 11. This black American won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics | Jesse Owens | 12. This movie showed there was hope "Somewhere over the Rainbow" | The Wizard of Oz | 13. This American boxer defeated Max Schmeling in a rematch for the heavyweight title | Joe Louis | 14. This German took power and set the stage for WWII | Adolf Hitler |
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