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. What is a centaur? | It is a creature which is half-man, half-horse. | 2. How do centaurs behave? | Centaurs like to eat and drink. They enjoy fighting and often attack humans. | 3. Are there any famous centaurs? | One famous centaur was called Chiron. Chiron was a famous centaur who was the adopted son of the god Apollo. He trained many famous heroes. Unlike other centaurs, Chiron was very civilised and wise. | 4. Are centaurs real? | Not really, unless you count horses as part centaur! | 5. What is a phoenix? | A phoenix is a mythical bird which is most famous for being reborn after it dies. | 6. What is the earliest version of the phoenix myth? | We know that myths were being told about a creature with a name similar to a phoenix in the 2nd millenium BC. However, it seems that this was not originally a bird. It seems to have been closer to a griffin in appearance. | 7. What did the Greeks believe about phoenixes? | The Greek writer Herodotus wrote about an Egyptian bird which he called the phoenix. He said that, once every 500 years, a phoenix flies to Egypt to bury his father there. Although Herodotus seemed to believe that there was only one phoenix alive at any one time, and lived for over 500 years, he does not seem to have thought that the phoenix was able to come back from the dead. | 8. What did the Romans believe about phoenixes? | The Roman writer Pliny the Elder wrote about phoenixes. He also said that they have a lifespan of 540 years and that, when they died, a new phoenix was born from its body, beginning life as a maggot. This was close to the modern version of the phoenix, but still not there yet. | 9. Where do we get our modern version of the phoenix from? | If you've seen or read 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', you'll know that Fawkes the Phoenix bursts into flames when he gets old and is then reborn from his own ashes. This version of the phoenix myth developed alongside Christianity, with early Christians using the phoenix to represent Jesus who, according to Christians, died and then rose from the dead. To this day, you can often find images of phoenixes in churches! | 10. Are phoenixes real? | Yes! Or, at least, the animal which inspired them is...or, sadly, was. It is believed that the phoenix was based on a very large breed of heron which is not extinct. However, many similar birds still exist, including the grey heron which is very common in the UK! | 11. What is a dragon? | Whereas today we think of dragons as huge, fire-breathing monster, this has not always been the case. In fact, our word 'dragon' comes from the Ancient Greek word 'drakon', which means 'snake'. | 12. Are there any famous dragons in Greek and Roman mythology? | Yes! Loads! There was the hydra, which grew two heads for every one it lost and which breathed poisoned gas. Then, there was the Ladon, the hundred-headed snake. And who could forget Typhon, the son of Mother Earth herself, a dragon so powerful that he almost defeated Zeus himself. | 13. Are dragons real? | As real as snakes are! And when you look at monstrous snakes like the Boa Constrictor, it is really easy to see where we got our modern idea of dragons from! | 14. Why are modern dragons so different to ancient ones? | Over time, more and more features which we might recognise as dragon-like began to get added to depictions and descriptions of dragons. It was not until 1260 AD, however, that the modern version of the dragon emerged. |
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