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. Sir Joshua Reynolds | He a famous Georgian portrait painter. He liked to paint people looking beautiful so his paintings were not always completely realistic! However everybody agrees he was one of the greatest portrait painters there has ever been. | 2. Thomas Gainsborough | He was also a fashionable portrait painter who painted famous personalities of the time. This is his portrait of Mr and Mrs Andrews. | 3. John Constable | He painted landscapes.This painting is the Mill at Gillingham. | 4. JMW Turner | He was also a landscape painter. He is famous for his use of colour and his wild sea paintings! | 5. George Stubbs | He was famous for painting horses. | 6. William Hogarth | He painted the dark side of Georgian life. |
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