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. What is always coming but never arrives? | Tomorrow | 2. There is a word in English in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word is a great woman. What is the word? | Heroine | 3. This book is about a boy who goes on a journey with several 'good guys' and several sailors-turned-pirates to find a buried treasure. | Treasure Island | 4. It tells the story of an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands. | Edward Scissorhands | 5. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back. IDENTIFY THE TECHNIQUE | Alliteration | 6. What is the name of Lyra daemon from 'His Dark Materials' series, called? | Pantalaimon | 7. The main character in “I Know You Did It” by Sue Wallman | Ruby | 8. Who wrote ‘Ruby in the Smoke’? | Philip Pullman | 9. Who wrote the poem, ‘The Early Purges’? | Seamus Heaney | 10. What is the name of the virtual utopia that teenager Wade Watts explores in Ernest Cline's futuristic novel, 'Ready Player One'? | OASIS | 11. What does Hermione Granger, Belle, and Meg March all have in common? | Emma Watson | 12. The main character in “I Know You Did It” by Sue Wallman | Ruby |
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