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. From my reflection, you will see your complexion. | Mirror | 2. To solve the hunt you must get|Into the room wired to the net|Crammed with tech and full of code|The clue is hidden in this abode|Treasure hunt clue answer | INTERNET LAB | 3. Throughout history, there have been thousands of well-documented cases of horses jumping over towers and landing on clergy and small men, forcing their removal. What am I? | Chess | 4. What has a ring, but no finger? | Telephone | 5. A pile of words|Jackets of hordes|Take a quick look|In the place of the book. | LIBRARY | 6. I am soft in every bit, and a spot where you like to sit. What am I? | A couch | 7. Runs, but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. | Clock | 8. To solve this little fix|Liquids, solids, gases mix|Head to the place of some reaction|To further this puzzle transaction | SCIENCE LAB | 9. Oscar thinks it’s really neat, but ask another and they will say, “it really stinks and should be left on the street.” | Garbage can | 10. Take note of all I say|Observed only by day|Looked at by all bar teach|With pen to me you reach. | WHITEBOARD |
From my reflection, you will see your complexion.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 10)
To solve the hunt you must get|Into the room wired to the net|Crammed with tech and full of code|The clue is hidden in this abode|Treasure hunt clue answer&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 10)
Throughout history, there have been thousands of well-documented cases of horses jumping over towers and landing on clergy and small men, forcing their removal. What am I?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 10)
What has a ring, but no finger?&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 10)
A pile of words|Jackets of hordes|Take a quick look|In the place of the book.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 10)
I am soft in every bit, and a spot where you like to sit. What am I?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 10)
Runs, but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 10)
To solve this little fix|Liquids, solids, gases mix|Head to the place of some reaction|To further this puzzle transaction&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 10)
Oscar thinks it’s really neat, but ask another and they will say, “it really stinks and should be left on the street.”&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 10)
Take note of all I say|Observed only by day|Looked at by all bar teach|With pen to me you reach.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 10)