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. Look around the room. List 2 cubes. | answers vary | 2. Look around the room. List 2 rectangular prisms. | answers vary | 3. If I got home at 4:45 p.m., and I left school at 3:15 p.m., how long did it take to get home? | 1 1/2 hours | 4. There are 14 people in math class. If each person passed 3 multiplication tests, how many tests did we pass in all? | 42 tests | 5. 2 bluebirds had 4 eggs each. How many eggs in all? If those eggs each had 3 spots on them each, how many spots in all? | 8 eggs. 24 spots. | 6. Measure the air conditioner. How long is it? How tall? | answers vary | 7. In the number 236,459 -- what does the 5 mean? | 5 tens -- or 50 | 8. In the number 23.67 -- what does the 2 mean? What does the 7 mean? | 2 means 2 tens (20), 7 means 7 hundredths | 9. If you skip counted by 6, what would be the ninth number you said? | 54 | 10. If you skip counted by 150, what would be the third number you said? | 450 | 11. 16 monkeys. 20 bananas each. How many bananas in all? | 320 bananas | 12. How many vertices does a cube have? | 8 vertices | 13. Susie broke pencils a lot this week! She broke 2 on Monday, 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday, and 1 on Friday. How many pencils did she break in all? | 6 pencils | 14. If Susie brought in a pack of 25 pencils to replace the ones she broke, how many pencils would be extra from the ones she needed to replace? | 19 pencils | 15. What is 1000 divided by 10? | 100 | 16. What is 22 X 47? | 1034 | 17. 17 fish. 3 fins each. How many fins in all? | 51 fins | 18. If Johnny is 7 years old, and his mother is 31 years old, how old was his mother when Johnny was born? | 24 years old | 19. Name 4 things that are shaped like a sphere. | answers vary | 20. Henry has $44.44, Joey has $22.78, Melissa has $10.21, Libby has $62.98, and Diane has $11.00. Who has the maximum? Who has the minimum? Who is the median? What is the range? | Maximum is Libby. Minimum is Melissa. Median is Diane. Range is $52.77 |
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