QR Challenge: treasure hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Walk 360 degrees N for 10 steps. Then 90 degrees E for 5 steps. Then 40 degrees NE for 15 steps. Then 360 degrees N for 60 steps. Then 180 degrees S for 5 steps.	front office
2. Walk 360 degrees N for 5 steps. Then 270 degrees W for 60 steps. Then 240 degrees SW for 137 steps.	white bare tree
3. Walk 20 degrees N for 80 steps. Then 300 degrees N for 20 steps	fence
4. Walk 90 degrees E for 40 steps. Then 180 degrees S for 50 steps	NRL R
5. Walk 90 degrees E for 160 steps.	NRL L
6. Walk 320 degrees NW for 110 steps. Then 20 degrees N for 40 steps	bubblers

 

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