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 is the nickname for the continent of Europe that uses a term that means surrounded by water on three sides? | Peninsula of Peninsulas | 2. What major set of mountains is located at the Northern end of Italy? | Alps | 3. What resource is the North Sea providing Europeans from deep below the sea floor? | Oil or natural gas (best answer is oil) | 4. Explain the full process of how Europe’s western countries are able to maintain such a mild climate. | Westerlies blow over the North Atlantic Drift which warms the air before blowing into western Europe. | 5. What peninsula is sometimes called land of the midnight sun? | Scandinavian Peninsula | 6. What city was built up from marshy land and islands and is a great example of Human Environmental Interaction in Italy? | Venice | 7. In what country (they sometimes want to break away from this country) might I find the Basque people? | Spain | 8. In the former Yugoslavia, which republic is said to have exerted its power harshly over the rest of the republics? | Serbia | 9. What country broke away from Yugoslavia and Serbia igniting a brutal war (hint, an ex Chicago Bull with the initials TK is from this country)? | Croatia | 10. What does E.U. stand for? | European Union | 11. What form of money does the E.U. use? | Euro | 12. What powerful country NW of mainland Europe is in the E.U. but doesn’t use the Euro by choice? | UK or Britain…England is acceptable | 13. What does BeNeLux stand for? | Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg | 14. Which major peninsula would I be talking about it I said it contained people of South Slavic decent? | Balkan Peninsula | 15. What country shares a border with Spain, but isn’t part of the Iberian Peninsula? | France | 16. What percentage of Europe’s land is suitable for agriculture? | 33% | 17. The ___________ ______________ agency was formed to help combat both air and water pollution within Europe. | European Environmental | 18. This country makes up a very small part of the Jutland peninsula. | Germany | 19. Which half (Northern or Southern) of Italy is more industrialized and economically stronger? | Northern | 20. In some Northern European countries, social welfare programs such as healthcare for everyone are paid for primarily through ______ _______. | high taxes | 21. Which part of Europe is most well-known for its music and art history? | Western | 22. Define balkanization: | the breaking up of one country into smaller mutually hostile countries | 23. Land reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands is called what? | Polder |
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