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. 1. You will see me in spring and my name starts with a D. | Daffodil | 2. 2. "Do you like butter?" which plant would you use to ask this question? | Buttercup | 3. 3. You can tell the time with me. | Dandelion | 4. 4. I'm very dainty and grow in large groups and I'm one of the first plants to be seen in Feb/March. | Snowdrops | 5. 5. My colours are very bright and I'm very small. Feb/March I can been seen. | Crocus | 6. 6. Hedgerow banks are a favourite place of mine. I'm the colour of a lemon.Primrose | 7. 7. Anagram of "loxfgevo" | Foxglove | 8. 8. I make very good chains. | Daisy | 9. 9. I arrive on mass in a sea of blue. Who am I? | Bluebell | 10. 10 . I'm mistaken for a pansy. Who am I? | Violet |
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