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. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? | footsteps | 2. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? | Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | 3. What room do ghosts avoid? | The living room | 4. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you? | your name | 5. You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be? | You live in a one story house! | 6. What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it? | a dice | 7. What runs around the whole yard without moving? | A fence | 8. What can you catch but never throw? | A cold |
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