QR Challenge: Saint Patrick's Day Challenge

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. In last year’s Saint Patrick’s day Parade there were twenty-four floats and twenty-six marching bands. It takes three minutes for each unit (float or band) to pass the reviewing stand. If the first unit passed the reviewing stand at 12:42 pm, what time will the last unit pass the reviewing stand?	3:12pm
2. Mackenzie and her family live in Boston. On St. Patrick’s day, she and her family are going to hear the Irish Chieftains in concert. The ticket prices are $26 for adults, $21 for seniors (over age 55), and $4 for children (under age 10). Mackenzie (age 12), her mother (adult), father (adult), older brother, younger sister (age 6), and grandfather (senior) are going to the concert together. How much will it cost Mackenzie’s father to buy all the tickets if he also has to pay 5% sales tax?	$135.45
3. Natalie’s class is serving a traditional Irish meal on St. Patrick’s day. Natalie is making Ballymaloe brown bread for the meal. The recipe calls for three and one-fifth cups of whole-wheat flour to make one loaf. How many cups of whole-wheat flour will she need to make three loaves?	9 3/5cups
4. St. Patrick died on March 17, 461 AD. That day has been celebrated in Ireland as St. Patrick’s Day ever since. For how many years has St. Patrick’s Day been celebrated in Ireland?	1554
5. The supermarket near our school sells green paper shamrocks to raise money for Harris Children’s Hospital. The shamrocks cost $2.18 each. The goal for this year was to sell four thousand, eight hundred shamrocks. The supermarket sold five thousand, three hundred forty-four shamrocks and donated ninety-five percent of the money to the hospital. How much money was donated to Harris Children’s Hospital?	$11,067.42
6. Zachary and his father decorated a float for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. They bought three hundred square feet of green fabric. They cut the fabric into five inch by seven inch squares. How many squares of green fabric did they use on the float?	1234 squares
7. Five leprechauns (Ryan, Christina, Samantha, Brianna and Benjamin) are each different heights (3 feet and 1 inch, 3 feet and 4 inches, 2 feet, 2 feet and 3 inches, and 3 feet and 9 inches). List the leprechauns from shortest to tallest.a. Benjamin is not shorter than Ryan. b. Christina is taller than Benjamin and taller than Samantha c. Samantha is taller than both Ryan and Benjamin d. Brianna is the tallest leprechaun.	Ryan, Benjamin, Samantha, Christina, Brianna
8. The school cafeteria is selling green Kool Aid on Saint Patrick’s Day. A large cup sells for $1.91 and a small cup sells for $0.61. On March 17th the students purchased 243 large cups of Kool Aid and 55 small cups of Kool Aid.How much money did the cafeteria collect?	$497.68

 

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