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. Ruth\'s garden has 6 rows of strawberry plants. There are 20 plants in each row. How many strawberry plants are in Ruth\'s garden? | 120 | 2. Alan will be gathering data about the temperature.Should Which part of Alan\'s data collection plan should come first? A. create a graph to display the data B record the data C choose a place and time to collect the data each day or D interpret the data? | choose a place and time to collect the data | 3. Courtney has 12 birdhouses. She makes three new birdhouses each week. How many birdhouses will Courtney have at the end of each week? | 12, 15, 18, 21 | 4. Paco is filling his fish tank. Which container should Paco use to make the fewest trips to the faucet? | one gallon container | 5. Give one way that a cone and a cylindar are alike. | both are 3D, have a circle for a base | 6. One month Tony\'s puppy grew seven eighths of an inch. The next month he grew five eights. How many inces did the puppy grow? | twelve eights | 7. Name a fraction that is equal to one whole. Draw an example. | answers may vary | 8. Write 480,072 in expanded form. | 400,000+80,000+70+2 | 9. A bug lands on a rope stretched between two trees on a lawn in the park. Which object represents a point? | the bug | 10. Abdul counted the number of units around the outside of the shape. Which measurement did Abdul find? | perimeter | 11. How do you label area? | square units, units squared or units2 | 12. How do you label volume? | cubic units, units cubed or units3 | 13. A theatre has 14 rows of seats. Each row has the same number of seats. The theatre has a total of 168 seats. What equation can be used to sind the number of seats, s, in each row? | 14xs=168 | 14. Mr. Thomas gave the store clerk $25.00 for a pair of jeans. He received $2.88 back in change. What was the price of the jeans? | $22.12 | 15. Casey made the pattern shown. 8, 19, 30, 41. What are the next tree numbers? | 52,63,74 | 16. What was the pattern in the previous problem? | add 11 | 17. Which could be measured in square inches. the amount of juice in a can, the height of a flag pole, the area of a CD case, the length of a pencil? | the area of a CD case | 18. What is a prime number? | a number that its only factors are itself and one | 19. What is a scalene triangle? | a triangle with all three sides different length | 20. Draw and example. | answers may vary |
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