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. Welcome to the KARNEY Family Day Scavenger Hunt! The activity is simple. Download the ScanLife Barcode & QR Reader App on your smart device to access the clues. A bunch of QR Codes have been placed around the grounds of the Killarney Community Centre, your job is to find them and scan them to get your next clue ending with locating a KARNEYcache (AKA: Geocache) box. 1st Family to find the KARNEYcache (AKA: Geocache) Box is the BIG WINNER! As you go along, take photos of objects the code was on. Remember to tag us @killarneycc_society or email us at killarneycc@vancouver.ca To start the Scavenger Hunt…Locate the glass @ the pool with no water | Glass windows around the Pool/Billiards Tables | 2. Do not let the dogs bog you down. Follow the east path to the last canopy | Last Tree on left side East Path thru Dog Park | 3. Round & round we go! Be careful crossing the road | Directional sign in the Round-a-bout | 4. Signs, signs everywhere there’s signs. Find the right one to proceed along | Community Centre Sign on 49th & Killarney | 5. It doesn’t have 4 leafs but is still green & lucky | Clover on Flag @ the Oval Track | 6. 49 13'40” N 123 2'32” W. 1st one to find the KARNEYcache (aka: Geocaching) is the BIG WINNER! KARNEYcaching (AKA: Geocaching) is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world | 49 13'40” N 123 2'32” W. |
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