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. 1. What is Alchemy? | A superstitious chemical science | 2. 2. What does the word Renaissance mean? | Rebirth | 3. 3. Alchemists mixed chemicals to search for what? | Drugs and potions | 4. 4. What elements did they believe could prolong life? | Earth,Fire,Air and Water | 5. 5. What did they try to turn lead into? | Gold | 6. 6. What are still in use today that they developed? | Laboratory procedures | 7. 7. Where was Alchemy originated? | Ancient Greece | 8. 8. What is the Zodiac man? | A chart which comes from an almanac | 9. 9. What was the Zodiac man meant to explain? | To explain how the astrological formations rule over each part of the body | 10. 10. What diagram would be used to diagnose illness? | Zodiac man | 11. 11. What are the star signs? | Astrological formations | 12. 12. What did astrologers believe the movement of the stars influenced? | Weather, Growth of crops inner workings of the body | 13. 13. What is an almanac? | A calendar that includes pictures | 14. 14. Who carried the almanac? | Doctors | 15. 15. How far does Astrology date back to? | The Ancient World | 16. 16. Who was Galen? | A famous Greek doctor | 17. 17. What did Doctors combine Galen’s ideas with? | Astrology | 18. 18. Who did people question? | Galen | 19. 19. Which artists drew accurate diagrams of the body? | Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo | 20. 20. Who proved that Galen was wrong? | Vesalius and Harvey |
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