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. picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Name her | Toni Morrison | 2. controversial and push racial boundaries. Name him. | Spike Lee | 3. what singer joined this group? | Sam Cooke | 4. efforts to become a writer? | Richard Wright | 5. recognized for his writing? | Paul Lawrence Dunbar | 6. script by a Black women to be produced? | Maya Angelou | 7. copies in 1945. What was her name? | Mahalia Jackson | 8. oppression”? | James Baldwin | 9. musical Jelly’s Last Jam? | Gregory Hines | 10. win an Academy Award for Best Actor? | Denzel Washington | 11. Jamaica? | Claude McKay |
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