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 usually brief storm with lightning and thunder | thunderstorm | 2. an act or instance of cutting the hair | haircut2 | 3. soap produced and packaged in powdered form | soap powder3 | 4. a helmet for protecting the head in the event of an accident, worn by motorcyclists, automobile racers, etc | crash helmet4 | 5. a set of shelves for books | bookcase5 | 6. a bow or arch of colors appearing in the sky opposite the sun and caused by the sun's rays passing through drops of rain | rainbow6 | 7. the setting down of a foot, or the sound so produced | footstep7 | 8. the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned | fireplace8 | 9. the work or skill of making or building things of wood | carpentry9 | 10. without worth; having no value | worthless10 | 11. a written direction by a physician for the preparation and use of a medicine | prescription11 | 12. of or relating to a secretary | secretarial12 |
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