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. Help I'm Harry Potter, we need you to kill Voldemort. You need to find horcruxes. Find the first one inside an instrument you use to play music | Ukelele | 2. Good Job! The next one is where you throw garbage before I go to the dump | Trash Can | 3. Nice! The next one can be found with a tool that brought light to homes in the 1700 and 1800s | Candle | 4. Next - dogs sleep on me, because I am so comfortable. Hurry!! He is getting more powerful | Dog Bed | 5. Nicely done! Fires are lit in the next one in the winter. Now GO FAST! | Fire Place | 6. OK - now go to the chair that moves | Rocking Chair | 7. YES! Now for the last one -- it is with the wood that STARTS the fire | Heartwood | 8. YOU DID IT! Now we can destroy them and kill Voldemort - GOOD JOB! |
Help I'm Harry Potter, we need you to kill Voldemort. You need to find horcruxes. Find the first one inside an instrument you use to play music&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 8)
Good Job! The next one is where you throw garbage before I go to the dump&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 8)
Nice! The next one can be found with a tool that brought light to homes in the 1700 and 1800s&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 8)
Next - dogs sleep on me, because I am so comfortable. Hurry!! He is getting more powerful&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 8)
Nicely done! Fires are lit in the next one in the winter. Now GO FAST!&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 8)
OK - now go to the chair that moves&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 8)
YES! Now for the last one -- it is with the wood that STARTS the fire&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 8)
YOU DID IT! Now we can destroy them and kill Voldemort - GOOD JOB!&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 8)
