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. How many students are in your class? Is this an odd or an even number? | 28even | 2. There are 15 tables in your classroom. How many legs on the tables altogether? | 60 | 3. Finish this pattern: 48, 46, 44, 42, 40, ___, ___, ___, ___, ____,___. | 38,36,34,32,30,28 | 4. Name three countries from the flags beginning with L | Latvia, Luxembourg, Lithuania | 5. How many squares can you count on the bird tapestry altogether? | 460 | 6. Hannah chose a book with 160 pages. If she was to read 10 pages a night how many nights would it take her to read? | 16 | 7. What day is three days before the 28th of October on the calendar above? | Friday | 8. I have €4. I bought five rulers. They cost ____________ altogether. How much change will I get? | €1.50 | 9. Bob was 35 minutes late to school. He was meant to start at ten to nine. What time did he arrive? | 9.25 | 10. If Pam filled up this bottle seven times how many litres will she have? | 3 and 1/2 litres. | 11. A chocolate bar had 12 squares. Tom ate ¼ of it on Monday and ½ on Tuesday. How many squares did he have left for Wednesday? | 3 | 12. Name three different spheres that can be found in the PE equipment room | Football, Basketball, Sliotar, Tennis Ball | 13. What length is it from one basket to the other on the 6th class yard? | x metres | 14. There were 65 cakes on the table. Paul shared 5 cakes to his five friends. How many had he left? (write the number sentence) | 40 | 15. 4centimetres(cm) of snow fell. 2cm melted away, but 7cm more fell overnight. How many cm’s of snow now?(write the number sentence) | 9cm | 16. How many more people prefer apple to banana? | 15 | 17. Draw a line of symmetry on the shapes below | half them exactly | 18. A spider and his two friends went for a walk. How many legs are on all three spiders? | 24 | 19. If you added the number of questions together what number would you get? | 210 | 20. Draw lines of 3 numbers that add together to make 10. The lines can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal. There are 10 to find. | e.g.2+3+5 |
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