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. On the floor or up the stairs, step all over me, I do not care. My letter is the one that comes before C and after A. | Carpet square with B on it; clue 2 will be under the carpet square with B on it. | 2. I’m just a simple wooden board, but if you use me, you’re never bored, the library holds books on me, find me and your clue will be under 1+1=? | Bookshelf with #2 on it. | 3. If you look at a tree, you’ve seen the previous me. Now I sit back and relax when you find me near the TV. | Wooden chair | 4. Look for a rainbow in a box! | Crayons in a box | 5. You see me in the morning, and in the evening too. And when you keep me clean, it’s a reflection of – guess who? | Mirror |
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