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. A good or service essential for living | need | 2. A good or service which people would like to have, but which is not essential for living | wants | 3. Exist unlimited wants but limited resources to produce the goods and services to satisfy those wants | economic problem | 4. Resources needed to produce goods or services | Factors of production | 5. Lack of sufficient products to fulfil the total wants of the population | Scarcity | 6. The next best alternative given up by choosing another item | opportunity cost | 7. When people and businesses concentrate on what they are best at | specialisation | 8. When the production process is split up into different tasks and each worker performs one of these tasks | division of labour | 9. The difference between the selling price of a product and the cost of bought-in materials and components | Added value | 10. The industry extracts and uses the natural resources of Earth to produce raw materials used by other businesses | Primary sector | 11. The industry provides services to consumers and the other sectors of industry | Tertiary sector | 12. When there is a decline in the importance of the secondary, manufacturing sector of industry in a country | De-industrialisation | 13. The industry manufactures goods using the raw materials provided by the primary sector | Secondary sector | 14. It has a both private sector and public sector | Mixed economy | 15. The money invested into a business by the owners | Capital | 16. A person who organises, operates and takes the risk for a new business venture | Entreprenur | 17. A document containing the business objectives and important details about the operations, finance and owners of the new business | A business plan |
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