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. How many children has Rachel got? | 2 | 2. Who crawled into a cupboard with her Mum? | Tina | 3. When was the Mary Celeste found and by which ship? | 5th December 1872 Dei Gratia | 4. What is the term for when water changes into water vapour | evaporation | 5. Who was the Captain of the Titanic | Captain Smith | 6. What is Rachel's middle name? | Joanne | 7. What do you call molten rock in a volcano before it has erupted? | magma | 8. What soup was on the menu in the dining hall today | Caldo Verde | 9. What did John Logie Baird invent? | TV | 10. What is the Past of the verb 'teach'? | taught | 11. Who invented 'cat's eyes'? | Percy Shaw | 12. Where was the Titanic sailing from and to? | Southampton, New York | 13. Where do The Simpsons live? | Springfield | 14. Who invented the fidget spinner? | Catherine Hettinger | 15. What's the highest level of English at British Council? | C2 | 16. Where is the Bermuda Triangle? | Near America in the Caribbean | 17. What were the names of the father and son who tried to escape from Crete by flying? | Daedalus and Icharus | 18. What's Adele's surname? | Adkins | 19. Who is Percy Jackson's dad? | Poseidon | 20. What do you need if you want to make money from an invention? | a patent | 21. What's Ed short for in Ed Sheeran's name? | Edward | 22. What's happening in England today? | General Election | 23. How many students has Belinda got in her class today? | Don't know yet | 24. When did your school move to Quinta das Teresinhas? | 1948 | 25. What are the names of the two security guards at the school gate today? | Don't know |
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