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.
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1. Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to excitedly take out new books and return the old ones. | 1 | 2. Her small bedroom now became her cosy reading-room and there she would sit quietly and read most afternoons with a cup of hot chocolate. | 2 | 3. She was not tall enough to reach things around the kitchen, but she secretly kept a small box in the shed which she brought in and stood on to reach whatever she wanted. | 3 | 4. It was normally hot chocolate she made, warming the delicious milk carefully in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. | 4 | 5. She liked to have a drink as she sat in her silent room reading happily in the empty house in the afternoons. | 5 | 6. The books transported her quickly into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. | 6 | 7. She went on ancient sailing ships with Joseph Conrad and she went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway. She travelled all over the world while sitting snugly in her little room in an English village. | 7 |
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