QR Challenge: Inventors and Inventions
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. Who invented the Airplane? | The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur in 1903)
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2. Who discovered Black holes in space? | Steven Hawking
| 3. Who discovered Penicillin? | Alexander Fleming
| 4. Who found the Theory of Relativity? | Albert Einstein
| 5. Philo Farnsworth made this thing we use most days for enjoyment | Television
| 6. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent? | The telephone
| 7. Edward Jenner developed the first successful what? | Vaccine
| 8. Allesandro Volta made the first what? | Battery
| 9. Charles Babbage invented the first technological machine in 1822? | Computer
| 10. What code did Samuel Morse invent? | Morse Code
| 11. Louis Pasteur created a way to heat milk and kill germs called what? | Pasteurisation
| 12. In 1867 Alfred Nobel created what explosive material? | Dynamite
| 13. The Phonograph was invented by Thomas Who? | Edison
| 14. Who invented the light globe? | Thomas Edison
| 15. Karl Benz invented the first petrol driven what in 1886? | Car
| 16. In 1895 Guglielmo Marconi invented what device we listen to? | The radio
| 17. Hubert Booth invented a machine that really sucked. What was it? | The vacuum cleaner
| 18. What destructive device was made in 1945 (WW2 end)? | The atomic bomb
| 19. Ray Tomlinson invented this mail service in 1971 | Email
| 20. What decade was the CD invented? | 1980s
| 21. Tim Bergers- Lee invented this in 1990. | World Wide Web |
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_Airplane?
Question 1 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_discovered_Black_holes_in_space?
Question 2 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_discovered_Penicillin?
Question 3 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_found_the_Theory_of_Relativity?
Question 4 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Philo_Farnsworth_made_this_thing_we_use_most_days_for_enjoyment
Question 5 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_did_Alexander_Graham_Bell_invent?
Question 6 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Edward_Jenner_developed_the_first_successful_what?
Question 7 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Allesandro_Volta_made_the_first_what?
Question 8 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Charles_Babbage_invented_the_first_technological_machine_in_1822?
Question 9 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_code_did_Samuel_Morse_invent?
Question 10 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Louis_Pasteur_created_a_way_to_heat_milk_and_kill_germs_called_what?
Question 11 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In_1867_Alfred_Nobel_created_what_explosive_material?
Question 12 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Phonograph_was_invented_by_Thomas_Who?
Question 13 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_light_globe?
Question 14 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Karl_Benz_invented_the_first_petrol_driven_what_in_1886?
Question 15 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In_1895_Guglielmo_Marconi_invented_what_device_we_listen_to?
Question 16 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Hubert_Booth_invented_a_machine_that_really_sucked._What_was_it?
Question 17 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_destructive_device_was_made_in_1945_(WW2_end)?
Question 18 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ray_Tomlinson_invented_this_mail_service_in_1971
Question 19 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_decade_was_the_CD_invented?
Question 20 (of 21)
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Inventors and Inventions: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Tim_Bergers-_Lee_invented_this_in_1990.
Question 21 (of 21)