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.
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1. Frogs are amphibians - they have moist skin and lay eggs in water | 2. Frog lay lots of eggs called frogspawn, in water | 3. Frogs lay lots of eggs because most will die | 4. When the eggs hatch, tadpoles emerge. They breathe through gills | 5. As they get bigger, back lags start to grow | 6. Front legs grow next and the tail is absorbed back into the body | 7. When the front and back legs have developed, it is known as a froglet | 8. The froglet continues to grow and explores the land as it now has developed lungs and breathes air | 9. The frog will not be able to reproduce until it is 2 or 3 years old | 10. Frogs are cold blooded meaning their body is the same temperature as their surroundings |
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