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. Who is Micheal? | A fourth grade student | 2. "The ants are beneficial for the environment." Support this statement with evidence from the text. | They recycle about 20 percent of leaves in the rainforest. | 3. "The ants are not weak animals as people generally think." Support this statement with evidence from the text. | Ants are strong animals and they can carry over 50 times their own weight. | 4. How do the leaf cutter ants communicate? | They communicate with the help of smell. | 5. Why do leaf cutter ants communicate? | They warn each other when there is danger.Also, they tell each other where they can find food. |
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