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 are the short-cut keys for Center Alignment? | Control E | 2. What are the short-cut keys for Left Alignment? | Control L | 3. What are the short-cut keys for Right Alignment? | Control R | 4. What are the short-cut keys for Bold? | Control B | 5. What are the short-cut keys for Italicize? | Control I | 6. What are the short-cut keys for Underline? | Control U | 7. What are the short-cut keys to increase font size? | Control Right Bracket ] | 8. What are the short-cut keys to decrease font size? | Control Left Bracket [ | 9. What are the short-cut keys to save a document? | Control S | 10. What are the short-cut keys to change the capitalization? | Shift F3 | 11. What are the short-cut keys that will take you quickly to the top of the document? | Control Home | 12. What are the short-cut keys that will take you quickly to the end of the document? | Control End | 13. What are the short-cut keys to close the document? | Control W | 14. What are the short-cut keys to open a new document? | Control N | 15. What are the short-cut keys to open a saved document? | Control O | 16. What are the short-cut keys to undo? | Control Z | 17. What are the short-cut keys to redo? | Control Y | 18. What are the short-cut keys to select everything? | Control A | 19. What are the short-cut keys to cut? | Control X | 20. What are the short-cut keys to copy? | Control C | 21. What are the short-cut keys to paste? | Control V | 22. What are the short-cut keys to print preview? | Control F2 | 23. What are the short-cut keys to print? | Control P | 24. What are the short-cut keys to toggle between windows? | Alt Tab | 25. What are the short-cut keys to highlight a Web address? | F6 | 26. What are the short-cut keys to create a hyperlink? | Control K | 27. What are the short-cut keys to minimize all windows? | Logo M | 28. What are the short-cut keys to maximize all windows? | Shift Logo M | 29. What short-cut keys highlights/selects the text? | Shift and Arrow | 30. What is the word that neans an act has become automatic to you? | automaticity | 31. When was the typewriter invented? | the late 1860\'s | 32. What are the home row keys? | asdf jkl; | 33. What is the official name of the keyboard? | QWERTY | 34. Why were the keys mixed up on the keyboard? | to slow down the typist |
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