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 would you be sure to find in the middle of Toronto? | The letter \\\"o\\\" | 2. If it takes 6 men 6 days to dig 6 holes, how long will it take 3 men to dig half a hole? | You can\\\'t dig half a hole. | 3. What starts with an \\\"e,\\\" ends with an \\\"e\\\" and usually contains only one letter? | An envelope | 4. Rearrange the letters in the words \\\"new door\\\" to make one word. | One Word\" | 5. What occurs once in a second, once in a minute, twice in a millennium, but never in the course of a lifetime? | The letter \\\"n\\\" | 6. Which word in the English language is most frequently spelled wrong? | The word \\\"wrong.\\\" | 7. A truck leaving New York for West Virginia weighs exactly 2 tons. About halfway through the trip, it crosses a bridge with a maximum capacity of 2 tons -- any more weight on it, and the bridge will instantly collapse. Just before the truck crosses the bridge, a 2 pound tree limb falls and lands on the roof of the truck and remains there as the truck crosses the bridge. But the bridge does not collapse. Why? | The truck has used up gas and now weighs less. | 8. What is the only 6-letter word in the English language that gives you 12 when you take away 1? | Dozens gives you dozen when you take away the s. | 9. Name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. | Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | 10. A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents who were both born in Boston, Massachusetts. But the child is NOT a United States citizen. How is this possible? | The child was born before the United States were formed. | 11. A train leaves from New York City (NYC) heading towards Los Angeles (LA) at 100 mph. Three hours later, a train leaves LA heading towards NYC at 200 MPH. Assume there\'s exactly 2000 miles between LA and NYC. When they meet, which train is closer to New York City | When they meet, they will be exactly the same distance from New York City | 12. You are a bus driver. At the first stop, 4 people get on. At the second stop, 8 people get on. At the third stop, 2 people get off, and at the last stop, everyone gets off. The question is: What color are the bus drivers eyes? | Whatever color your eyes are. | 13. A man drove all the way from New York to San Francisco only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a flat tire from the very start. Yet his car was completely unaffected by it? How is this possible? | His spare tire was flat. | 14. If today is Monday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow? | Monday (which is today) | 15. Which is correct \"The yolk of the egg are white\" or \"The yolk of the egg is white\"? | Neither, egg yolks are yellow. | 16. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? | You can\'t take a picture with a wood leg. You need a camera to take a picture |
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