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.
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1. Sir David Attenborough was born in London in 1926 and grew up in Leicester. He was brought up alongside two brothers and two adopted sisters. | 1 | 2. also for his ability to get over jet lag. | 7 | 3. In 1954, he made the fi rst of his famous Zoo Quest series,which, over the next ten years, took him to wild places all around the world. | 5 | 4. After a short time in the Royal Navy, | 3 | 5. As a child he collected stones and fossils, and went on to read geology and zoology at Cambridge University | 2 | 6. He then became Director of Programmes at the BBC | 6 | 7. in 1952, he joined the newly formed BBC television Talks Department. Ironically, the woman who hired him didn’t want him to appear on camera because she thought his teeth were too big | 4 | 8. for bringing a passion for nature into their lives. | 8 |
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