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 do we call measuring the outside of an object? | perimeter | 2. What is the māori word for table? | tepu | 3. Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named? | Lulu | 4. It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes.What is it? | your breath | 5. Find rhyming pairs. Unscramble the words below so that each pair of words rhymes.WNROED & UTRHNDE | wonder and thunder | 6. What two companies announced this week they would build contact tracing into their new phones? | Apple and Google | 7. I start with an “e”, I end with an “e”, but I usually contain only one letter? | an envelope | 8. I have a face that doesn’t frown, I have hands that do not wave, I have no mouth, just a familiar sound, I don’t walk – but I move around? | a clock | 9. People climb me, cut me and burn me, they show me no respect! My rings are not of gold, but they do tell my age? | a tree | 10. I’m so simple that I only point; yet I guide people all over the world? | a compass |
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