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. Once in a blue moon | Something that happens very rarely. | 2. Beating around the bush | Avoiding the main topic | 3. Cry over spilled milk | Complaining about a loss or failure from the past | 4. Spill the beans | To tell someone a secret | 5. Piece of cake | Something that is easy to understand or do | 6. Blessing in disguise | Something good and useful that did not seem that way at first | 7. Taste of your own medicine | When someone receives the same treatment, usually negative, that he/ she gives to others | 8. Feeling a bit under the weather | Feeling slightly ill | 9. Icing on the cake | Something that turns good into great | 10. Cost an arm and a leg | Be very expensive | 11. Ball is in your court | When it is up to you to make the next decision or step | 12. Bite off more than you can chew | To take up a task which you may not be able to because you can't do it | 13. Don’t judge a book by its cover | One should not judge something primarily on appearance | 14. To sit on the fence | To remain neutral | 15. Give cold shoulder | To ignore |
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