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. Mary, Mary, quite contrary | ‘Contrary’ means ‘opposite’. If a person is contrary, it often means that they take a different view just for the sake of it. Mary was accused of being awkward by wanting to change England back to a Catholic country so soon after it had become a Protestant one. | 2. How does your garden grow? | Mary wanted a baby. She was delighted when she thought she was pregnant soon after marrying her husband, King Philip of Spain. However, she soon found out that she wasn’t pregnant at all; her stomach pains were in fact the symptoms of a terrible disease, possibly cancer. One line of the rhyme ridicules (makes fun of) the fact that nothing will grow inside her. | 3. With silver bells | Mary enjoyed listening to the sound of church bells. This music was not that popular at the time. | 4. And cockleshells, | Mary’s husband wasn’t very loving. King Philip hardly ever saw her during their marriage. Also, he had affairs with lots of other women. In Tudor England, this was called cuckolding. | 5. And pretty maids all in a row. | Mary was rumoured to have had some children, but each little girl was stillborn – Mary was supposed to have had them buried secretly in a long row of graves. |
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How does your garden grow?&choe=UTF-8
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With silver bells&choe=UTF-8
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And pretty maids all in a row.&choe=UTF-8
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