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. I keep time and when I'm done I beep, my main function is heat | Microwaves (M) | 2. Although I'm not a book I need two stories or more I go straight up and down, to go to another floor | (E) Elevator | 3. I am locked away in number 1. To open me you need the right combination | lockers (L) | 4. X marks the spot | rainforest garden (I) | 5. Find me with some bars so neat, I often tweet. When you find me you will admire My structure made of sculptured wire | bird cage (S) | 6. I stay hidden in the same place Harry lived in the Dursley's residence | S under stairs near A17 | 7. I am hidden where you check your announcements | year 10 noticeboard (A) | 8. These teachers check your grammar, find me where you use your manners | English staffroom notice board (') | 9. You will find me where you shoot your shot | (S) basketball courts | 10. All shining nad silver, with a beautiful face. You look into me and find this place | Bathroom back mirror (G) | 11. All pile of words, the opposite of surds, take a quick look, in the place of the book | outside of library | 12. It's been a long day, I'm about to burst, rush to this to quench one's thirst | water bottle refiller (R) | 13. Go here to get those gainz | playfair gym | 14. with clothes of green that can't be seen, and bark of a dog, I sleep like a log in the main quad | Tree (E) | 15. Multiple things are held in here, the musical, MAAD and assemblies with all years | MPC (N) |
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