QR Challenge: Riddle Scavenger Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. What has to be broken before you can use it?	An egg
2. 2. What month of the year has 28 days?	All of them
3. 3. What is full of holes but still holds water?	A sponge
4. 4. What gets wet while drying?	A towel
5. 5. David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?	David
6. 6. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?	A piano
7. 7. What has hands, but can’t clap?	A clock
8. 8. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?	A table
9. 9. What can you catch, but not throw?	A cold
10. 10. What has words, but never speaks?	A book
11. 11. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?	Seven
12. 12. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?	Short
13. 13. You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?	The letter "e"
14. 14. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?	2nd Place

 

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