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. Precipitous | dangerously high or steep | 2. Commiserate | express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize | 3. Slake (verb) | quench or satisfy (one's thirst) | 4. Debilitated | in a very weakened and infirm state | 5. Sustenance | food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment | 6. Purloin | steal (something) | 7. Benevolent | well-meaning and kindly | 8. Obdurate | stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action | 9. Perdition | (Christian theology) a state of eternal punishment & damnation into which a sinful person passes after death | 10. Indolence | avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness | 11. Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 12. Detrimental | tending to cause harm | 13. Conflagration | an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property | 14. Repugnant | extremely distasteful; unacceptable | 15. Imperious | assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering |
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