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. "I was born with water on the brain." | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie | 2. "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock." | Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison | 3. "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." | The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald | 4. "The marvelous thing is that it's painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts." | The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway | 5. "I celebrate myself/And what I assume you shall assume/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. | "Song of Myself", Walt Whitman | 6. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns." | The Odyssey, Homer | 7. "Sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles, the anger which caused so much sorrow to the Greeks." | The Iliad, Homer | 8. "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." | The Outsiders, SE Hinton | 9. "Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul./And sings the tune - without the words-/and never stops at all. | Feathers, Jacqueline Woodward (the poem is by Emily Dickinson) | 10. "Who's there?" | Hamlet, William Shakespeare | 11. "My own flesh and blood, dear sister, dear Ismene, how many griefs our father handed down!" | Antigone, Sophocles | 12. "Gregory, on my word we will not carry coals." | Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare | 13. "When I wake up the other side of the bed is cold." | The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins | 14. "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad." | The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare | 15. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." | 1984, George Orwell | 16. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the potholes." | Animal Farm, George Orwell |
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