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. True or False: Octopuses have three (3) hearts and blue blood? | True | 2. True or False: An electric eel could power ten (10) lightbulbs with its electricity? | True | 3. Which animal has the loudest call of any animal on Earth: the howler monkey, the whale or the green grocer cicada? | the whale, reaching 188 decibels. | 4. True or False: The sea sponge has no head, no mouth, no eyes, no bones, no lungs, no brains and no heart? | True | 5. A group of whales is called a herd or a pod? | A pod of whales! | 6. A group of fish is called a flock or a school? | A school of fish! | 7. Which weighs more: a kilogram of sand or a kilogram of feathers? | They weigh the same: both of them weigh a kilogram! |
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