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 our topic this term? | The Tudors | 2. Who was Henry VIII? | A Tudor King who ruled from 1509 - 1547 | 3. How many wives did Henry VIII have? | 6 | 4. Which queen outlived Henry VIII? | Catherine Parr | 5. What flower would you associate with the Tudor period? | Roses | 6. What do Tudor Houses look like? | description | 7. Did girls go to school? | some poor children did not go to school. | 8. What did the Tudors do when they had been to the toilet? | throw it out the window | 9. What did the children use for a football? | A blown up pig's bladder | 10. What were pebbles and cherry stones used for by children? | marbles | 11. How many days a week did children go to school? | 6 | 12. Can you name Henry VIII six wives? | Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boelyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr. | 13. What is a whipping boy? | rich families could afford to employ a whipping boy, when the rich child was naughty it was the whipping boy who took the punishment. | 14. How many children did Henry VIII have? | 3 | 15. What was the main diet for The Tudors? | 75% of the diet was meat, homemade bread, in season fruit and vegetables | 16. What was scurvy? | description | 17. What did rich Tudors wear? | colourful | 18. What is the Mary Rose? | war ship | 19. How did the Tudors entertain themselves? | jousting, football, music, hunting, tennis | 20. What was a Tudor Street like? | description |
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