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 do you think this idiom means? To have a whale of a time | 2. What do you think this idiom means? A piece of cake | 3. What do you think this idiom means? To pass with flying colours | 4. What do you think this idiom means? To feel under the weather | 5. What do you think this idiom means? To be snowed under | 6. What do you think this idiom means? To twist someone's arm | 7. What do you think this idiom means? To ring a bell | 8. What do you think this idiom means? It's not my cup of tea | 9. What do you think this idiom means? Once in a blue moon | 10. What do you think this idiom means? To have a memory like a sieve | 11. What do you think this idiom means? To work your fingers to the bone | 12. What do you think this idiom means? To be like watching paint dry | 13. What do you think this idiom means? To give someone the cold shoulder | 14. What do you think this idiom means? To be like two peas in a pod | 15. What do you think this idiom means? To be like a bear with a sore head | 16. What do you think this idiom means? To blow off some steam | 17. What do you think this idiom means? To go the extra mile | 18. What do you think this idiom means? To hit the books | 19. What do you think this idiom means? To let the cat out of the bag | 20. What do you think this idiom means? Pigs might fly | 21. What do you think this idiom means? To be a walk in the park | 22. What do you think this idiom means? To work your fingers to the bone | 23. What do you think this idiom means? To pass with flying colours | 24. What do you think this idiom means? To hit the sack | 25. What do you think this idiom means? As right as rain | 26. What do you think this idiom means? To go the extra mile | 27. What do you think this idiom means? To see eye to eye | 28. What do you think this idiom means? It's not rocket science | 29. What do you think this idiom means? To be thrilled to bits | 30. What do you think this idiom means? To blow your own trumpet/horn | 31. What do you think this idiom means? To be no picnic | 32. What do you think this idiom means? To get on like a house on fire |
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