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. A science class performed an investigation by evaporating a solution containing 10g of salt and 50ml of water. How much salt would you expect to find in the cup at the end of the investigation? | 10g | 2. A tablespoon of a substance is added to warm water and stirred. The result was that the substance could no longer be seen. We can conclude from the results that the substance is | solution | 3. You have a mixture of aluminum and iron bolts. What property of matter can you use to separate them easily? | magnetism | 4. Use the chart to help answer this question. Students collected data on four substances. If the same students were then given a mystery substance made of tan crystals that were insoluble in water, which substance could that be? | sand | 5. Your teacher is drinking a glass of iced tea. When she adds sugar, what property of the tea changes? | taste |
Question 1 (of 5)
Question 2 (of 5)
Question 3 (of 5)
Question 4 (of 5)
Question 5 (of 5)
