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. If Muggles stumbled across Hogwarts, it would look like a dilapidated building with a “Keep Out: Dangerous” sign on it. | Did you know? | 2. The first Harry Potter book was published in 1998, the same year the final Battle of Hogwarts was fought. Rowling has said, "I open at the close". | Did you know? | 3. The Hogwarts houses were first written on a barf bag. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw were first written on the back of an airplane sick bag when J.K. Rowling was on a plane and didn’t want to forget the names before she landed. | Did you know? | 4. The funny-named plants in the wizarding world are real. Oadwax and Mugwort may sound like words Rowling made up, but in fact she got most of them from a real book called Culpeper’s Complete Herbal. | Did you know? | 5. 'Parselmouth' is a real word. According to Rowling: “Parselmouth is an old word for someone who has a problem with their mouth like a hair lip.” | Did you know? | 6. What ever happened to Dolores Umbridge after she "left" Hogwarts? Well, she ended up in Azkaban for her crimes. Quite sure there are no cat plates there. | Did you know? | 7. The name Voldemort may be derived from French words when translated mean "flight of death", because of this the "t" is not pronounced when speaking. | Did you know? |
If Muggles stumbled across Hogwarts, it would look like a dilapidated building with a “Keep Out: Dangerous” sign on it.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 7)
The first Harry Potter book was published in 1998, the same year the final Battle of Hogwarts was fought. Rowling has said, "I open at the close".&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 7)
The Hogwarts houses were first written on a barf bag. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw were first written on the back of an airplane sick bag when J.K. Rowling was on a plane and didn’t want to forget the names before she landed.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 7)
The funny-named plants in the wizarding world are real. Oadwax and Mugwort may sound like words Rowling made up, but in fact she got most of them from a real book called Culpeper’s Complete Herbal.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 7)
'Parselmouth' is a real word. According to Rowling: “Parselmouth is an old word for someone who has a problem with their mouth like a hair lip.”&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 7)
What ever happened to Dolores Umbridge after she "left" Hogwarts? Well, she ended up in Azkaban for her crimes. Quite sure there are no cat plates there.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 7)
The name Voldemort may be derived from French words when translated mean "flight of death", because of this the "t" is not pronounced when speaking.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 7)
