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. 1. Home of the Bearcats! | Brescia University | 2. 2. Recognized by US News and World Reports Best Colleges as one of the top in the world. | Murray State University | 3. 3. Enrollment is 22,529. | University of Louisville | 4. 4. Student enrollment is 12,560. | Eastern KY University | 5. 5. The Challenger Center is part of this college. | WKCTC | 6. 6. Was founded in 1889. | The University of the Cumberlands | 7. 7. Yearly tuition is $37,100. | Centre College | 8. 8. Billy Ray Cyrus and Steven Curtis Chapman are famous alumni. | Georgetown | 9. 9. The students explore caves because of the school's location. | Union College | 10. 10. Tuition is free. | Berea College | 11. 11. The school that changed Mr. Willoughby's life. | Lindsey Wilson | 12. 12. The acceptance rate is 93.3%. | Western KY University | 13. 13. One of the buildings served as a hospital during the Civil War. | Transylvania University | 14. 14. Located 7 miles south east of Cincinnati. | Northern KY University | 15. 15. Room and board costs $7,580. | Morehead University | 16. 16. A tiger is the mascot. | Campbellsville Universtiy | 17. 17. Located in Frankfort, KY | Kentucky State University | 18. 18. Has a vision of being one of the nations 20 best public research universities. | UK |
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