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.
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1. Apply the order of operations to this algorithm to find the answer: 38 + (14 × 5 – 2) ÷ 4 × 1 =? | 55 | 2. What is the first part of a narrative called? | Introduction or Orientation | 3. Which governing body is responsible for the World Heritage List? | UNESCO | 4. How many corners does a square have? | 4 | 5. Which farm animal gives us milk? | A Cow | 6. Name at least one technique for finding gold. | panning, cradling, mining etc. | 7. What is one thing we do to take care of our pets? | walk them, feed them, groom them, give them shelter | 8. Are Kangaroos monotremes, marsupials, or placental mammals? | marsupials | 9. Identify the preposition in this sentence: Look under your bed. | under | 10. How many hundredths are in 6.279? | 7 | 11. Convert 362cm to cm | 3.62m | 12. What is the capital city of NSW? | Sydney | 13. Choose the word that best describes Aunt Spiker from James and the Giant Peach: Loving, nasty, ditzy | nasty | 14. Which two Australian animals cannot walk backwards? | kangaroo and emu | 15. What is a baby echidna called? | A puggle | 16. What was the name given to the bushfires that occurred in Victoria in early 2009? | Black Saturday Bushfires | 17. Identify the adjectival phrase: The fierce wind from the south howled continuously during the night. | from the south | 18. Name a Super Six strategy | visualising, predicting/inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, making connections, summarising. | 19. What is this form of punctuation called: … | ellipsis | 20. Which 3D object has two faces? | a cone |
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