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. In here you will be hit with such sweet sounds that you won’t be able to sit. Feel the rhythm and hear the bass. Make sure your come with your sticks to this place. | Steel pan room | 2. It is Friday, and all is not well. Head to this location to rest for a spell. The person here may make you some tea or give you pills to soothe your all your ills. | Nurse’s office | 3. Neither here nor there, I am not used for instruction, so what is my function? Storage is what I do and room 300 is in my frontal view. | Storage shed in parking lot | 4. It sure smells around here, just like the sea. Those who reside here don’t need to breathe air like you or me. Scheduled feedings 9, 12, and at 3. Throw me some bread ace, and watch me swim to the surface with haste. | Aquaponics Center | 5. College, career or whatever my aspiration, the people here guide me in the right direction. We work together to plan my schedule, but when the new semester comes I am doomed (Oops! the class is cancelled!) | Counselors’ office | 6. Science rocks, so my teachers say, but all I do is read books all day. When I am here I get to dissect or I might even magnify an object. | Rm 216 (Science Lab) | 7. Although English is the language taught and spoken here. You may need a little Latin flair to help you get there. Hasten your pace to ciento tres (cent tros, CIII). | Ms. Foy Rm 103 | 8. I have a great view of the dock, white clouds, and beautiful blue sea. I am known as the gateway to opportunity, just open me and see! All alone at the end of the block I stand, a cloud colored eyesore. I am the only solid white entrance at this end of the 1st floor. | Mrs. Francis Rm 101 | 9. Whether it is functions, fractions or integers, this teacher has the correct answers. IXL is her hack, with music playing in the back. As a Presidential award winner she can surely brag because she was honored by President Obama. | Ms. Harry Rm 201 | 10. Students with excessive absences and failing grades like to ask for makeup, but many teachers will not deal with this issue especially when they act up. For a manicure, make-up and a do, this teacher is the right one for you. | Brin | 11. This is the place where all the action happens. Where we beat hose hawks, yes! We are on top of things. From b-ball to v-ball tournaments, and dodgeball too. I host the big day all you students look forward too. Whether you take the stairs or walk right in here, you are sure to burst a sweat doing activities my dear. | Gym | 12. With this teacher you are quite familiar. During your 1st period class she might peak in and inquire. Physical Science or physics it’s just the same, but this semester robotics is her game. | Fraser | 13. This room seems off the grid, no other classroom within this building. It shares the space with a restroom, I wonder what subject is being taught there. English, it what I am told, the former classroom of Mrs. JnoRose. | Room 309 | 14. There goes the bell, but my ride is not ready, gosh, it’s really 2:50. Sit on this to rest your tired feet. You may look here, there or anywhere, but the answer is beneath. | Bus shed under a bench | 15. You’ll never be bored with so much to do. Information, presentations, research, and trophies too! Just remember that you’ll need your ID to get in, but when you leave, check out a book…if you don’t what’ll be a sin. | Library | 16. Whether you want to fix a car or learn to sail, this is the location where you will learn that trade. | West 1 | 17. At this location, drama, speech, and AP English share the same locale, and cheerleaders practice, oh wow! Sadly, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, made of electronics—surely, I should not be here. | copier by Morales/Vicars room | 18. Beautiful adorned with illustrations galore, at this juncture east meets west. Should I walk right and head to English or Math, or head left to band and JROTC? | Middle of the ramp |
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