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. When did the Great Fire of London take place? | The Great Fire of London happened between 2nd-5th of September 1666. | 2. Where did the fire begin? | The fire began in a bakery in Pudding Lane. | 3. Where did the fire spread? | It eventully spread across most of the city. | 4. What were house made of during the fire in 1666? | The houses were made out of materials such as wood and straw which burned easily. | 5. Why did the fire grow so quickly and burn for so long? | Previous to the Great Fire of London, there had been a drought (a period of low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water) in London that had lasted for 10 months, so the city was very dry. | 6. How do we know that the Great Fire of London happened? | Back in 1666, people wrote about it in letters and newspapers. People also painted pictures of the fire so we know what it looked like. | 7. Who is Samuel Pepys? | Samuel Pepys wrote about the Great Fire of London in his diary, he also led a crew that extinguised the very last fire. | 8. If there was a shortage of water, how were the fires put out? | To fight fires during this time, people would have used leather buckets, metal hooks and water squirts. | 9. Where did people live after the fire if their homes burnt down? | They lived in tents in fields around London while the buildings were rebuilt. | 10. How many buildings burnt down during the fire? | 13,000 houses, 87 churches and even St Paul's Cathedral. | 11. Who is Sir Christopher Wren? | Sir Christopher Wren designed a monument to remember the Great Fire of London, which still stands today. |
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