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 Potato, Mud and Marble have in common? | CAKE | 2. The day before yesterday, Sally was 7 years old. Next year, she'll turn 10. How is this possible? | BORN ON DECEMBER 31st | 3. You can write in it, burn it or chop it up Captain. | LOG | 4. Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right? | WRONG | 5. If A=1 B=2 C=3 etc. which word would 6, 15, 18, 5, 19, 20 reveal? | FOREST | 6. MAGIC WORD QUESTION = Which process describes the way plants respire? | PHOTOSYNTHESIS | 7. Which word is the odd one out: First Second Third Forth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth | FORTH (spelt incorrectly) | 8. Find the number that comes next in this sequence: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11 | 16 | 9. Who is Head of PE at ELA? | MRS KRUGER | 10. 7 squared + 3 squared = ? | 58 | 11. Who played Captain Kirk in the recent Star Trek film? | CHRIS PINE | 12. What is the Mandible better known as? | JAW BONE | 13. Billie was born on December 28th, yet his birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible? | HE WAS BORN IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE | 14. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? | SECOND | 15. A butcher stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 shoes. What does he weigh? | MEAT | 16. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name? | JOHNNY | 17. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? | YOU CAN@T TAKE A PICTURE WITH A WOODEN LEG | 18. How many Churches are found in East Leake? | 5 | 19. What did the Pinfold in East Leake used to be used for? | LIVESTOCK | 20. If Z=1 Y=2 X=3 etc. which word would 14, 18, 8, 24, 22, 15, 15, 26, 13, 22, 12, 6, 8 reveal? | MISCELLANEOUS |
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